Smelling A Story

David Kurtz thinks there's more there to the CIA/Cheney/Al Qaeda leader/assassination program story.

So regardless of how you might feel about targeted assassinations, it's not at all clear why this particular program would be so radioactive -- compared to what the U.S. was, and still is, doing more or less openly -- that (1) Cheney would demand the CIA not brief Congress about it for eight years; (2) Panetta would cancel it immediately upon learning of it; and (3) Democrats would howl quite so loudly when finally informed.

Which makes sense. Republicans keep saying "You know, all we were doing is going after Al Qaeda members." If that's true, then why lie to Congress about it, especially when there were overt programs and military missions to go after Al Qaeda members?

There's a major piece of information missing here, another shoe to drop still. As Tim F. at Balloon Juice says:

BTW, here is a fun idea. Put together secret assassination squads, the One Percent Doctrine and Dick Cheney. Let your imagination run wild about the minute care they must have taken in selecting targets.

I'm willing to bet the objections to the program have something to do with going well beyond "going after Al Qaeda".

Who else did they go after?