Report: Secret Order Lets U.S. Strike Al Qaeda Anywhere
November 10, 2008WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted nearly a dozen secret operations against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria, Pakistan and other countries since 2004, The New York Times reported Sunday night.
Citing anonymous U.S. officials, the Times story said the operations were authorized by a broad classified order that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed and President George W. Bush approved in spring 2004. The order gave the military authority to attack Al Qaeda anywhere in the world and to conduct operations in countries that were not at war with the U.S.
If it was a secret it’s not anymore.
You know just because you can report something doesn’t mean you have to. Can you imagine if the New York Times was like this during WW II. If they were they probably would have put the pending invasion of Normandy on their front page.
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