Washington Post: Study recommends that the CIA not cede paramilitary ops

"There have been repeated articles suggesting that this is a Pentagon power grab. That's not the case" one defense official said. Covert ops are intended to be clandestine and secret, but can be acknowledged later. "I don't want the military to get into the business of lying after the fact whether they've conducted a military operation" said R. James Woolsey a lawyer who was CIA director in the Clinton administration.