Government lies! Shocking! - "New Report: CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru - Reason Magazine."

Hit & Run > New Report: CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru - Reason Magazine:

"In 2001, the Peruvian Air Force shot down a plane flying over the Amazon after receiving information from the CIA that the plane was trafficking in narcotics. It wasn't. It was filled with Christian missionaries. The attack resulted in the death of 35-year-old Veronica Bowers and her infant daughter Charity. The CIA was working with the government of Peru as part of a program to intercept drug planes en route—another part of our disastrous drug interdiction efforts in Latin America.

Seven years later, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson has issued a blistering report finding that the CIA repeatedly lied and covered up details about the intercept program, about the downing of Bowers' plane, and about other incidents that never made the news.

...In other words, the risk of the loss of innocent life was acceptable if it meant more efficient ways of inhibiting the delivery of narcotics. Lying to Congress and the executive? All worth it. Because it's all about stopping people from getting high."