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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (46448)	11/17/2004 5:08:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Drones pick off 'rats' of Fallujah theaustralian.news.com.au

To: TimF who wrote (46448)	11/18/2004 3:47:12 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Pentagon officials said Mr. Rumsfeld was not always happy with the CIA's performance in the field. In response, he has worked to give U.S. Special Operations Command authority to collect its own intelligence on which commandos can act in hours or days to kill or capture terrorists. Officials said Mr. Rumsfeld believed CIA paramilitary officers were too slow to prepare the battle space in the fall of 2001 before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban. In fact, the CIA's paramilitary force was so poorly staffed, they said the Pentagon was forced to transfer scores of active duty special operations personnel to the CIA to fill out the army. Mr. Rumsfeld signed a secret order to the Joint Chiefs and U.S. Special Operations Command in July 2002 authorizing commandos to perform some spying activities. Since then, SoCom has increased intelligence training for Green Berets at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Lewis, Wash. A joint Senate-House Intelligence Committee report in 2002 disclosed that the CIA was never able to have a spy inside senior al Qaeda circles. Bush should have gone in and cleaned house as soon as he took office the first time...anyone left from the clinton administration was inept at best, and out to destroy Bush at every turn.