EXCLUSIVE: Former CIA director Woolsey defends agency

From: The Washington Times | July 16, 2009 

EXCLUSIVE: James Woolsey, the CIA director for the Clinton administration, on Thursday defended a Bush-Cheney initiative to assassinate al Qaeda leaders and the agency’s decision to keep the idea top secret. “It doesn’t appear as if they actually did anything with respect to these projected or possible assassinations of al Qaeda leaders,” Mr. Woolsey, CIA director from 1993 to 1995, told The Washington Times America’s Morning News radio show. “It looks like they talked about it. … I think the way the statute generally works is when you engage in planning or are on the verge of taking an action …

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