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| Cheney says we may use thugs, too |
| 2001-09-23 |
Tracking down Osama bin Laden and breaking up his terrorist network may require the help of some "unsavory characters," the kind who violate human rights at one time or another. That's what Vice President Dick Cheney said in a recent interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." After all, he noted, sometimes espionage is "a mean, nasty, dangerous, dirty business." Former President George Bush, who also was a former CIA director, and some other former insiders have attacked guidelines that regulate the recruitment of sources who have a history of criminal activity and human-rights violations. Calling the guidelines, which were put into place in 1995, "ridiculous," former CIA chief James Woolsey said on CNN that the policies were "like telling the FBI to penetrate the mafia without putting any criminals on its payrolls." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |