Originally posted by: conjur
In an incredibly treasonous show of cowardice and appeasement of terrorists, the Bush administration has issued orders to the CIA to CUT and RUN. The Bush administration has ordered the CIA to STOP LOOKING FOR BIN LADEN!!
Read all about it!
The CIA has closed down a secret unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials said Monday, the NEW YORK TIMES will report Tuesday, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:
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The terrorist tracking unit, known inside the spy agency as "Alec station," was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned to other offices within the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.
The decision is a milestone of sorts for the agency, which created the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring bin Laden to justice "dead or alive."
The realignment reflects a view that al-Qaida is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, as well as growing concern about al-Qaida-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
CIA officials said that tracking bin Laden and his deputies remains a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit is not a sign that the effort has slackened. Instead, the officials said, the realignment reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organizations or individuals.
Get a load of that spin:
"tracking bin Laden and his deputies remains a high priority"
Yeah, that's why this administration diverted the best resources from Afghanistan and placed them in Iraq where there were NO TERRORISTS BEFORE THE INVASION. I wonder which country will be invaded next in order to "spread democracy" so that yet another haven for terrorists can be created.
In the meantime,
bin Laden remains a FREE MAN nearly 5 years after the 9/11 attacks.
This administration is filled with traitorous and treasonous war criminals who only have one interest at heart: making more and more money for themselves and their cronies in the military-industrial complex. 60% of the $2.4 trillion US budget is directed toward Defense and Defense-related spending.
60%!. And after spending hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars specifically in Afghanistan and Iraq for nearly 5 years, what have we to show for it?
2,538 dead American soldiers; 18,356 officially wounded (not including the tens of thousands returning with PTSD and other mental disorders); 113 dead British soldiers; 113 dead "Coalition" soldiers; 4,882 dead Iraqi security forces; ~40,000 dead Iraqi civilians.
Bin Laden still alive.
Ayman al-Zawahiri still alive.
"Heckuva job, George!"
It saddens and sickens me that on the eve of the 230th "birthday" of the United States of America that news comes forth that George W. Bush has directed the CIA to CUT and RUN from bin Laden.
Makes one wonder just how thick those blood-for-oil ties are between the Bush family and the Saudis and the bin Laden family.
Happy Birthday, America.
:-(