Uncovering More of Bush's Covert Operations

From the Republican administration that brought you incredible future deficits and present-time daily war comes new information about taxpayer funds secretly being spent to give Rumsfeld sole control of covert US operations called the Strategic Support Branch. It includes the recruitment of secret agents that are, according to a Pentagon memo, "notorious figures" whose links to the U.S. government would be embarrassing if disclosed. Some Pentagon officials refer to it as the "secret army of Northern Virginia."