Secret plan to kill terrorists! (Jack Bauer, where are you when we need you?)

Gasp! What have we come to? The administration is thinking of appointing a special prosecutor to find out if there was a secret plan, which was never carried out, to kill Al Qaeda terrorists, er, extremists, er, disrupters. Have we become pantywaists who can't own up to fighting an actual WAR? Read about it in the WSJ: 

One former senior intelligence official said the program was an attempt "to achieve a capacity to carry out something that was directed in the finding," meaning it was looking for ways to capture or kill al Qaeda chieftains. The official noted that Congress had long been briefed on the finding, and that the CIA effort wasn't so much a program as "many ideas suggested over the course of years." It hadn't come close to fruition, he added.