CIA - Kill or Capture - Who makes it to the list?

[reACTIONary]

Here are excerpts from an LA Times article that describes the process for identifying and listing enimies for the CIA "Kill or Capture" list.

The article is here: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/world/la-fg-cia-awlaki31-2010jan31
This is a repost with fewer ads:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24545.htm

Decisions to add names to the CIA target list are "all reviewed carefully, not just by policy people but by attorneys," said the second U.S. official. "Principles like necessity, proportionality, and the minimization of collateral damage -- to persons and property -- always apply."

The memos proposing new targets are drafted by analysts in the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center. Former officials said analysts typically submit several new names each month to high-level officials, including the CIA general counsel and sometimes Director Leon E. Panetta.

Former officials involved in the program said it was handled with sober awareness of the stakes. All memos are circulated on paper, so those granting approval would "have to write their names in ink," said one former official. "It was a jarring thing, to sign off on people getting killed."

The program is governed by extensive procedures and rules, but targeting decisions come down to a single criterion: whether the individual in question is "deemed to be a continuing threat to U.S. persons or interests."

The list is scrutinized every six months, officials said, and in some cases names are removed if the intelligence on them has grown stale.

"If someone hadn't popped on the screen for over a year, or there was no intelligence linking him to known terrorists or plans, we'd take him off," the former official said.

The National Security Council oversees the program, which is based on a legal finding signed after the Sept. 11 attacks by then-President George W. Bush. But the CIA is given extensive latitude to execute the program, and generally does not need White House approval when adding names to the target list.

[bluestate10]

1. I could care less.

As long as bastards like the ones that died at the point of a hellfire missile vanish from the face of the earth.

[COLGATE4]

2. Reads like a whole bunch of postings over at FR

[reACTIONary]

4. Be that as it may...

... the OP reads like an article from the LA Times.

[bluestate10]

6. Yea. Gather all Freepers in a room while a cluster of armed drones

visit them. Yea, I love them and am one of them. Yea, yea, yea. Get a clue dude.

[OhioBlue]

3. thanks for the info. n/t

[reACTIONary]

5. You're welcome (nt)