Special report - The bin Laden kill plan
The plan to create CIA hit-squads proved another dead end…revived by Porter Goss with a twist: the agency would use outside contractors for the hit teams, to give it more deniability. Erik Prince, founder-owner of the controversial private military contractor then known as Blackwater and a former Navy SEAL, was invited to participate in brainstorming sessions.http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/uk-binladen-kill-idUKTRE74B6IA20110513They were going to supplant Special Forces with private hit squads. The Samozas and Duvaliers would be proud. Perhaps, as Emptywheel noted a few months ago and others as well, Raymond Davis has something to say on the matter and whether such programs actually ended?
http://firedoglake.com/2011/05/13/house-of-cards/