And does this group now report to Joe Biden?
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.
Or are they still working for Dick Cheney?
“I have a what that reports to me?!?”
-Joe Biden
Seriously. Can we haz prosecute for war crimes time now plz?
pull up a chair and take a front seat right next to me.
for sometime now, I’ve been knitting booties to match the orange suits w/ black stripes.
I still have my 2004 campaign button with Bush and Cheney in orange jumpsuits. 😉
Congresswoman Pelosi, for taking impeachment “off the table” in 2006. “thank you” for proving congress is nothing but a sham.
“thank you” for proving beyond a doubt our government has no checks and balances anymore, and has turned into an oligarchy.
I’ve tried but I find that I can’t compose a comment that wouldn’t subject me to investigation.
Hersh said before the Bush Administration was gone that many people came to him and said they were going to have much to talk about after 1-20-09. Now it’s going to come out.
If he’s not murdered by some Xe/Blackwater people first.
Sys Hersh either knows everything 6 months in advance, or is dead wrong about whatever he pushes next.
That’s because he’s a tool of the CIA – for better, and for worse. When he’s good, he’s very very good. And when he’s bad, he’s horrid. 😉
Absolutely. Compare Hersh’s work on My Lai versus the Valentine book on the Phoenix Project. At best he’s a conduit for leaks from certain sectors of intelligence, at worst he’s a coverup artist or character assassin.
Just saying.
Both of the latter are well on display in his historically inaccurate book “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
You have to wonder just who was (allegedly at least) assassinated . . .
I’m not sure exactly what is different about this. The United States is not new to the business of political assassinations.
It’s new that it answered to the office of the Vice President.
are they still working for Dick Cheney?
interesting question. l suppose it depends on your definition of “executive”, eh?
It’s a very good question. We used to think it was just the tinfoil in our hats that made us ask these sorts of questions.
Now we know who Darth Vader was in a previous life.
There’s little reason for me to not believe this.
after all, the Pentagon runs its own “intelligence” unit now– and the $40 Billion spent per year on the dark agencies is secret.
there’s no congressional oversight, debate, transparency, nothing. $40 Billion per year.
Executive assassination? You mean like criminal CEOs?
If only they’d gotten to AIG on time!
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A special wing under Cheney and Rumsferld reported much earlier …
A new Special Forces group, designated Task Force 121, has been assembled from Army Delta Force members, Navy seals, and C.I.A. paramilitary operatives, with many additional personnel ordered to report by January. Its highest priority is the neutralization of the Baathist insurgents, by capture or assassination.
The revitalized Special Forces mission is a policy victory for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has struggled for two years to get the military leadership to accept the strategy of what he calls “Manhunts“–a phrase that he has used both publicly and in internal Pentagon communications. Rumsfeld has had to change much of the Pentagon’s leadership to get his way. “Knocking off two regimes allows us to do extraordinary things,” a Pentagon adviser told me, referring to Afghanistan and Iraq.
One step the Pentagon took was to seek active and secret help in the war against the Iraqi insurgency from Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East. According to American and Israeli military and intelligence officials, Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in Israel to help them prepare for operations in Iraq. Israeli commandos are expected to serve as ad-hoc advisers–again, in secret–when full-field operations begin.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I wonder why these gents weren’t employed in Iraq instead of the military? Hmmmmm..