07.13.2009 10:39 am
How should Obama react to the allegations of Bush policies?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
First it was allegations of torture, now it’s a CIA program kept secret from Congress that has the Bush administration in hot water again.
According to The New York Times, leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of the highly classified counterterrorism program kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Wall Street Journal cited anonymous government officials who said the secret program was a plan to kill or capture al-Qaida operatives. The Journal also reported that money had been spent on planning and training but had not become fully operational.
The assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered…
