"By giving the CIA control over the Special Forces units, the United States can claim that the whole enterprise is “covert,” that is, that it doesn’t need the permission of Yemen’s government to be carried out. Or, as the Journal puts it, the CIA get “get around restrictions placed on military operations.”"
(I really hope for a day when extrajudicial killings and military incursions with no congressional oversight are considered "un-American")
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