WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have dropped a three-year investigation into whether at least four CIA officers lied to lawmakers and agency superiors about a secret anti-drug operation in Peru that ended in 2001, a Justice Department spokesman said on Saturday.
"The Justice Department has declined a criminal prosecution," spokesman Bryan Sierra said in a statement.
The United States halted anti-drug surveillance flights that first began in 1994 after the fatal downing of a small missionary plane in Peru in April 2001.
How does the CIA gun down an American missionary and her baby and nobody is held accountable? I say Bush either steps up the plate and fires the asshats responsible for this (at the very least) or gives up and admits he is everything the liberals claim he is.
Posted by Muddy at February 7, 2005 10:22 PM | TrackBackHe can't fire them. CIA and DoJ employees are civil service and have job security. It takes months of documentation of gross incompentence to fire them. Anyone responsible that Bush could have fired are long gone with the Clinton administration.
As for how it happens: they radio the plane for indentification, the plane refuses to answer and they shoot it down. It happens every day, still does under different circumstances by different departments. Usually they are drug transports. The thing is, it wouldn't be necesary if a) the drugs were legal and b) the south american governments actually gave a damn.
Posted by: skywalker at February 7, 2005 11:41 PMHe can't fire them. CIA and DoJ employees are civil service and have job security. It takes months of documentation of gross incompentence to fire them. Anyone responsible that Bush could have fired are long gone with the Clinton administration.
As for how it happens: they radio the plane for indentification, the plane refuses to answer and they shoot it down. It happens every day, still does under different circumstances by different departments. Usually they are drug transports. The thing is, it wouldn't be necesary if a) the drugs were legal and b) the south american governments actually gave a damn.
Posted by: skywalker at February 7, 2005 11:43 PM