Still not how sure this matters much. It was a program that never came to fruition, and was already actively implemented in the "Special OPs" teams. About the only thing of an interesting nature here is that "it has been reported" that Cheney was involved with telling them to not report anything at the time.
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The CIA -- and Blackwater -- were not the only agents that sought to covertly kill key members of al-Qaeda using small, highly trained teams. A similar effort, officials say, was undertaken by U.S. Special Forces.
"The targets were generally people on a kill or capture list," said a source familiar with Special Forces operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "How did people get on the list? Well, if we knew that people were involved in planning attacks, they got on the list. More than half were generally captured. But the decision was made in advance that if they resisted, or if it was necessary for any reason, just kill them."
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Also, this was news like 2 weeks ago. Why did the Post wait until today to post an article basically rehashing what we already knew? I would think them doing something to save American and civilian lives was well worth the effort. Blackwater seems to be the ones who had issues - and I haven't seen Panetta come out and say that the CIA directed Blackwater to go out and kill civilians...
*shrug*