Obama, CIA helping Libyan rebels?

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert support for Libyan rebels, Reuters reported on Wednesday quoting government officials.

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Thursday, 31.03.2011.

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U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert support for Libyan rebels, Reuters reported on Wednesday quoting government officials. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels, The New York Times writes. Obama, CIA helping Libyan rebels? Small groups of CIA operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners that the Obama administration hopes can help bleed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s military, The New York Times pointed out. U.S.-based ABC News has also reported that Obama signed a memorandum allowing secret operations in Libya in order to help the rebels, but that it does not include arming them at the time. The Reuters’ sources familiar with the matter claim that Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks. Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the CIA. This is a necessary legal step before such action can take place but does not mean that it will. "As is common practice for this and all administrations, I am not going to comment on intelligence matters," White House Spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. "I will reiterate what the president said yesterday, no decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya." According to The Associated Press, Carney said that the White House was considering all options to help the Libyan rebels. Barack Obama (Beta, file)

Obama, CIA helping Libyan rebels?

Small groups of CIA operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners that the Obama administration hopes can help bleed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s military, The New York Times pointed out.

U.S.-based ABC News has also reported that Obama signed a memorandum allowing secret operations in Libya in order to help the rebels, but that it does not include arming them at the time.

The Reuters’ sources familiar with the matter claim that Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks.

Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the CIA. This is a necessary legal step before such action can take place but does not mean that it will.

"As is common practice for this and all administrations, I am not going to comment on intelligence matters," White House Spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. "I will reiterate what the president said yesterday, no decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya."

According to The Associated Press, Carney said that the White House was considering all options to help the Libyan rebels.

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