AP sources: Tenet canceled secret CIA hit teams (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 07/15/2009 - 6:16pm

AP - As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors resurrected the plan, according to former intelligence officials.



 

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