CIA was a long way from Jason Bourne

[steven johnson]

What's being leaked from the CIA sounds a lot like a disinformation cover story.

LA Times:
CIA was a long way from Jason Bourne
Thu 16 Jul 2009
By Greg Miller


In movies, the CIA has so many prolifically lethal assassins roaming the world that the main problem often seems to be reining them in.

But details that spilled out this week about a real CIA assassination program indicate that when the plotting is being done by spies instead of screenwriters, the obstacles are not so easy to surmount.

According to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, the CIA spent seven years trying to assemble teams capable of killing the world's most wanted terrorists but could never find a formula that worked.

The struggles came during a period in which the agency had been given unprecedented authority and resources, and a cause -- responding to the Sept. 11 attacks -- with broad public support.

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[ControlledDemolition]

1. 'Journalists' have been bought and paid for by the 'intelligence community' for many years. n/t

[troubledamerican]

2. Operation Mockingbird

[ControlledDemolition]

4. Walter Sheridan was one such individual perhaps? n/t

[Mythsaje]

3. Probably had problems getting anyone close enough...

Anyone they really trusted, anyway.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. What it looks like is that cheney's big dream of sending guys on suicide

missions really isn't very practical. Except for in the movies, who is going to do that?