CIA ‘lied’ over fatal attack on missionary plane

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5299034.ece

FOR Jim and Veronica Bowers and their two small children, the flight up the Amazon in a single-engined Cessna float plane should have been a routine return to the remote house-boat where the family lived during missionary work with Indian tribes.

It ended in 90 seconds of horror when a Peruvian air force jet guided by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractors mistook the Cessna for a drug-smuggling plane and shot it out of the sky. Veronica, 35, and her seven-month-old daughter Charity, were killed by a bullet that pierced the Cessna’s fuselage, passed through the mother’s back, and lodged in her infant’s skull.

Somehow the pilot, his legs mangled by a burst of heavy-calibre bullets, managed to crash-land on the piranha-filled river. Jim Bowers and his six-year-old son Cory watched Veronica’s body float away as they clung to the wreckage.

More than seven years after the family was shattered by a terrible mistake, the CIA has been accused in a new report of repeatedly lying to criminal investigators, members of Congress and White House officials about what happened 5,000ft above the Amazonian jungle.

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The release of excerpts from a classified report compiled by CIA investigators has astonished the Bowers family, shocked their congressional supporters and opened the door to yet another inquiry into the attack and into who may have participated in a cover-up.

The excerpts were released by Congressman Peter Hoekstra, who represents the Michigan constituency of the Bowers’s home church, and who is a senior member of the House intelligence committee.

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. Just Like How The CIA Mistook A Chinese Embassy In Kosovo

For an enemy target. Sometimes I think the CIA has outlived its usefulness, but then I remembered it has never been useful at all.

[TomInTib]

2. Hell, the CIA only regrets that everyone on board wasn't killed.

If that had been the case, the incident would never have seen the light of day.

[HillbillyBob]

3. What number of other crimes have been sponsored by CIA Yalie

millionaire thugs that took Nazis into their ranks after WWII have a problem with killing any number of innocents that we don't know about?
What about importing cocaine with the help of their buddies over at the DEA?
NSA is just about as bad. Law enforcement pfui.
So many of our so called law keepers are the biggest crooks and need to be cleaned out.
All of them are kept out of prison by the collaborators mostly rpugs but there are plenty of dems that have bloody dirty hands too.

[bemildred]

4. Why would anyone in their right mind expect anything else?

Lying is one of the principle functions of the CIA, it's what they DO. The only person they are not supposed to lie to is the President, unless of course he wants to be lied to too.