Thursday, March 12, 2009

Shadow war ...

Sy Hersh drops a bomb:

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive assassination ring" throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Hersh replied, "After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet."

Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. "It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently," he explained. "They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it."

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Not surprising, though Executive Order #12333 (signed by Jimmy Carter) forbids political assassinations for any reason. Another in the long list of crimes on the Bush/Cheney rap sheet.

At this point, there's a couple 8 x 8s in The Hague with their names on 'em.

Great thanks to Larisa for the Raw Story link.

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