John lennon Must Be Turning In His Grave - Penny Lane Ops
 

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents then sent them home to help the U.S. kill terrorists, current and former U.S. officials said.

The CIA promised the prisoners freedom, safety for their families and millions of dollars from the agency's secret accounts.

It was a risky gamble. Officials knew there was a chance that some prisoners might quickly spurn their deal and kill Americans.

For the CIA, that was an acceptable risk in a dangerous business. For the American public, which was never told, the program was one of the many secret trade-offs the government made on its behalf. At the same time the government used the risk of terrorism to justify imprisoning people indefinitely, it was releasing dangerous people from prison to work for the CIA.

Leave little doubt that 9/11 could have easily been an inside CIA job.

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bad deal all around. we are all getting screwed

JEZ usa was working with Osama bin laden, what did you expect?

Where does John Lennon fit in all this? Please excuse my ignorance.

John Lennon would be disgusted by the world we live in today.

I'm sure as he was disgusted with the world back before he died however mccartney wrote penny lane.

They are using Beatles songs as code words for the operations.

Strawberry fields and penny lane.

LOL. True. Paul is probably demanding royalties for the usage.

That is unfortunate that Beatles songs have to be associated with this. However, much worse has been associated with Beatles songs. Helter Skelter was associated with the Manson killings in 1969. So wasn't Harrison's Piggies. Paul McCartney abandoned playing Helter Skelter for decades. He started playing it again just in the past five years or so.

I am surprised that anyone is surprised at this. We tortured these guys for years. Yep, I bet some of them took any deal to get out of there.