The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the C.I.A. is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized.
Tenet told the Commission that except in one specific case, the CIA was authorized to kill Bin Laden only in the context of a capture operation.
The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said.
Trump's demagogic charisma is disturbing enough when it excites thirteen-year-olds, but it's cause for full-blown alarm when law enforcement — the only institution in American life authorized to kill citizens — reacts in the same way.
Trump's demagogic charisma is disturbing enough when it excites thirteen-year-olds, but it's cause for full-blown alarm when law enforcement the only institution in American life authorized to kill citizens reacts in the same way.
The CIA placed Aulaqi on its list of suspected terrorists it is authorized to kill earlier this year; the cleric had been on a separate list of individuals targeted by the Joint Special Operations Command.
Although European Union regulations (as well as the practices of modern hygiene) prohibit butcher shops from killing anything on the premises — only certified slaughterhouses are authorized to kill an animal — the annual pig slaughter in a small hilltop village goes largely undetected.
On Thursday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. offered such an argument on behalf of Mr. Obama as well, although it was much more bluntly framed, with a focus on two of Mr. Obama's more popular accomplishments: the mission he authorized to kill Osama bin Laden, and his approval of the auto bailout.
Mr. Harethi, a key Al Qaeda leader in Yemen who is suspected of helping to plan the bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000, is believed to have been on the list of Qaeda leaders that the C.I.A. had been authorized to kill.
