WaPo: CIA Hired Blackwater for Al-Qaeda Hits

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 9:15 PM PDT

2009/08/19 · 21:15

Remember that top-secret assassination program that so enraged Leon Panetta and Congressional leadership? Your tax dollars paid Blackwater to carry it out, says the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

The secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted intense scrutiny, according to two former intelligence officials familiar with the events.

[I]n 2004, after briefly terminating the program, agency officials decided to revive it under a different code name, using outside contractors, the officials said.

"Outsourcing gave the agency more protection in case something went wrong," said a retired intelligence officer intimately familiar with assassination program.

What could possibly go wrong?

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