Another illegal CIA domestic operation. Is the CIA going to lose control of this one, as well?
The CIA ran the al-Qaeda operatives inside the U.S. who carried out the 9/11 attacks. It was an illegal and highly-classified joint-operation with the Saudis and Pakistanis. See,
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00257.htmIt was illegal for several reasons. First, after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, CIA was forced to cut UBL loose, even though he was an important operational asset against the Russians in Bosnia and Chechnya. Even after the '98 East Africa embassy bombings, the US continued to run many of his operatives in various operations. They didn't learn from those lessons.
Second, the CIA continued to bring many of these Islamic fighters into the U.S. after Operation Cyclone was officially closed down after the '93 WTC bombing. The guys who designed and built that bomb were double-agents, but somehow the bomb worked, anyway. They didn't learn from that lesson, either.
The FBI had the formal lead role in domestic counter-terrorism operations, but CIA refused to fully cooperate with the FBI in dealing with the Agency's own assets and programs. No lessons learned, here.
Third, the CIA did not seek FISA warrants to surveil these assets inside the U.S. We now know that FISA is a dead issue.
No top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is going to blow such a program just because he perceives there are risks attached. Even if they know an MEK team were wandering around lose, would they even do anything to stop them without White House orders?
The U.S. still has not admitted it aided either the Bosnian or the Chechyan militants. What about this operation?
Do you understand why nobody would do anything to shut this monster down until and unless the President ordered it?