À medida que se vão conhecendo as informações em torno da ocultação ao Congresso dos Estados Unidos, durante a administração Bush e mediante instruções de Dick Cheney, dos programas de contra-terrorismo da CIA, também se vão descobrindo detalhes sobre alguns desses programas e respectiva eficácia, designadamente os mais risíveis:

The first hit attempt was in Kenya, was botched, and the deltas had to be bailed out by the Ambassador who had not been briefed on what was going on under his nose.  The program was suspended after that but never quite terminated.(…) The perpetrators in Kenya also quickly discovered that white boys born in the American south sporting crewcuts and speaking no foreign language had difficulties in blending in as foreign businessmen.

A ler, o artigo de Philip Giraldi, na The American Conservative