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Top secret. The growing controversy involving Dick Cheney, the CIA, and a secret plan to capture or kill enemies of the US. Motive for murder. New leads tonight in the shocking killing of a Florida couple who adopted children with special needs. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams presented tonight with limited commercial interruption.

 

In Washington to the growing controversy over what was a secret CIA program to assassinate key Al Qaeda members… a plan that was put in place after 911. Today, some members of congress are demanding an investigation into why the program was kept secret from them., reportedly on direct orders from former vice president Dick Cheney. Our chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell in our Washington newsroom with details tonight. Andrea? Good evening.

 

Good evening, Brian. Former officials tell NBC News that the secret program that has created tonight’s firestorm involved an order by President Bush after 911, authorizing the CIA to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders even outside of war zones like Afghanistan. After 911, the commander in chief made no secret of his determination to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders in their caves. “There’s an old poster out west that said Wanted: dead or alive.”

 

But now former CIA officers say the agency had elaborate정교한 plans to create hit squads암살단 to kill Bin Laden and his associates at close range outside of war zones, in fact, anywhere in the world. Former officials say congressional leaders knew George Bush had signed an order to kill Al Qaeda leaders. And in December 2001, NBC News reported that the president had lifted a ban on assassinations dating to the Ford and Regan years to go after the 911 terrorists and even their bankers. The rationale이론적 해석? In wartime, it’s self defense.

 

In fact, President Clinton had reached the same decision after US embassies in Africa were bombed in 1998. “The ban that was put under, in effect, under President Ford only applies to heads of state. It doesn’t apply to terrorists.” But former officials say the Bush plan which was never fully implemented이행하다 went further and on vice president Cheney’s orders, no one told congress. “The very well concern by the CIA is that if you notify congress too soon, inevitably it will leak. And that once it leaks, then any attempt to try and implement that program is gone.”

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