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After learning that the [[CIA]] had hired the private security contractor [[Xe (Blackwater)]] as part of a planned programme to assassinate [[Al Qaeda]] leaders, Panetta held an emergency meeting in June 2009 to brief Congress about the programme for the first time.<ref>Mark Mazzetti, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?_r=2&hp C.I.A. Sought Xe (Blackwater)’s Help to Kill Jihadists], New York Times, 19 August 2009.</ref>
 
After learning that the [[CIA]] had hired the private security contractor [[Xe (Blackwater)]] as part of a planned programme to assassinate [[Al Qaeda]] leaders, Panetta held an emergency meeting in June 2009 to brief Congress about the programme for the first time.<ref>Mark Mazzetti, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?_r=2&hp C.I.A. Sought Xe (Blackwater)’s Help to Kill Jihadists], New York Times, 19 August 2009.</ref>
  
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Revision as of 18:42, 1 July 2014

Leon Panetta

Leon E. Panetta was appointed Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency on 13 February 2009.[1]

Xe (Blackwater) revelations

After learning that the CIA had hired the private security contractor Xe (Blackwater) as part of a planned programme to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders, Panetta held an emergency meeting in June 2009 to brief Congress about the programme for the first time.[2]

References

  1. Leon. E Panetta], Central Intelligence Agency, 13 February 2009.
  2. Mark Mazzetti, C.I.A. Sought Xe (Blackwater)’s Help to Kill Jihadists, New York Times, 19 August 2009.