Democrats love fake scandals, it help them hide their inadequacies. They made an art of it during Bush’s terms in office. Just throw it against the wall with a concerned look on your face and hope it stuck. Most times it did not, a few times it did.

Now their tying a post Bush mud-sling and again, it’s not sticking. Of course I’m talking about the plan to assassinate terrorists. Turns out though that it was known about in 2002 thanks to the Ny Traitor Times, but it was actually in many forms a program that goes back as far as the 1980s.

“I think we have an abort situation,” Defense Secretary Harold Brown informed President Jimmy Carter on 24 April 1980.”

In the early 1980s, after the failed attempt by the inept Carter administration to rescue American hostages in Iran, efforts stepped up to identify and remove “caustic subjects” around the world. The orders were discover and eliminate. SOF were created within the military, specific to my haunts the Army, along with the CIA. Although in the shadow of the Church hearings, which brought scrutiny to the agency, nevertheless it was thought prudent and necessary to establish a “middle ground”. Instead of targeting political subjects - executive action - it was decided that we only would target known terrorist entities, those who were discovered to have planned to, or have attacked American interests.

Of course congress was knowlegable of the program and blessed it, but as today it was never fully implemented. However it existed in forms through differing op orders throughout the Reagan, Bush I, Clinton years as well as the Bush II years. Which means that Cheney wasn’t withholding anything, any congress person who didn’t know about it either wasn’t entitled to know, or was not paying attention.