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CIA Pushes to Scrap Ban On Assassinations and Work with Human Rights Abusers

The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks have led to harsh Congressional criticism of alleged intelligencefailures by the FBI and CIA and calls for a rapid expansion of their budgets and powers. US intelligence officialshave responded by saying Congress should scrap legislation that prohibits the CIA from engaging in assassinations orusing human rights abusers as intelligence agents. These restrictions, they say, may have hindered their ability toinvestigate and undermine alleged terrorist organizations.


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