CIA drug warriors shot down 15 civilian planes

The CIA has long been out of control, regardless of who's in the White House. It has a mind of its own with little accountability.

With no political will to curb the failed War on Drugs (which expands every year), the drug war and the CIA have been a deadly combination.

Now a report shows that between 1995 and 2001 a drug war effort by the CIA and Peru's Air Force shot down 15 civilian aircraft. There is no evidence that any of these flights or any of their crew or passengers had anything to do with drugs.

One of the flights carried an innocent American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter. They both died when the CIA shot their plane down.

The report also reveals that government officials lied to Congress about the CIA's plane-shooting program and obstructed a Justice Department investigation into possible criminal charges. However, Bush's Justice Department decided in 2005 not to file charges against anyone involved in shooting down the planes (no surprise).

The drug warriors are willing to kill missionaries and babies just so they can claim they're "fighting drugs." (They've put into action the ideas of several right-wing politicians who had urged such a program.) There's no words in the English language sufficient to express my disgust at the government thugs who have murdered innocents to carry out the War on Drugs.

(Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/world/main4664791.shtml)