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Clinton Started CIA Rendition Program: Ex-agent
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture. Clinton said 'That's up to you'," said Scheuer.
BERLIN, December 28, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Former US President Bill Clinton was the first to use the CIA's rendition program to capture, transfer and question terror suspects on foreign soil, a former US counterterrorism agent has revealed.
"President Clinton, his national security advisor Sandy Berger and his terrorism advisor Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al-Qaeda," Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, told Thursday's issue of the German newsweekly Die Zeit, reported Agence France Presse (AFP) Wednesday, December 28.
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture. Clinton said 'That's up to you'."
The rendition program was first authorized by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Scheuer, who headed the CIA unit that tracked Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, said that he developed and led the "rendition" program.
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That shoots hole in the left's theory that all of this is just Bush's big power grab.
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Clinton, like Bush, was a bit powerhungry.
I expect that from liberals.
It was a bit of a shock to learn that not only did Bush copy the argument that he could intern people without due process, he argued that prohibiting him from torturing them would prevent him from fighting terrorism.
Bush is Clinton squared, in this regard.
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Originally posted by The Galatian:
Clinton, like Bush, was a bit powerhungry.
I expect that from liberals.
It was a bit of a shock to learn that not only did Bush copy the argument that he could intern people without due process, he argued that prohibiting him from torturing them would prevent him from fighting terrorism.
Bush is Clinton squared, in this regard.
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I disagree with this assessment.
I believe GWB has integrity and honesty, which the former President was far from.
I don't agree with all GWB's policies but I believe he's forthright in the office of POTUS.
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To assume that one man, whom most of you swear has a very small IQ and does not possess the ability to speak clearly, is making a power grab is the stuff Leno talks about in the first five minutes of his late night show.
No one person can possess or effectively control that much power.
Get a grip.
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Well, do a google search on Karl Rove, then, and see what comes up.
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If it is on the internet it is gospel to some people!