Government Hit Squads, Minus the Hits
The movies make it look so easy: the sniper’s crosshairs on a terrorist’s forehead; the plastic explosive taped beneath a foreign spy’s car; the lethal potion slipped into a dictator’s morning coffee.
So perhaps the biggest surprise about the Central Intelligence Agency’s furor du jour — the secret program, hidden from Congress, to kill the leaders of Al Qaeda — is not that there was such a program, which many Americans ...
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