This part of the article amazed me:
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Schroen, 63, who is officially retired but continues to work for the CIA as a contractor, said the conversation was a turning point.
"Other than in paramilitary operations, I have never in 32 years heard of an order to kill anyone. And in fact up to that day, my orders and the orders the CIA was operating under were primarily to try and capture bin Laden alive," he said.
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Don't you think this tells us there is a different kind of mentality at work here?
Although I have heard civilians who would be
for this very thing, it is a new day in the
"official orders" of things as they are today.
In His Love,
Dora