Hersh: Executive Assassination Ring

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.
The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of "America's Constitutional Crisis" whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day.

Hersh replied,

"After 9/11, I havent 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 havent been called on it yet. That does happen.

"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC its called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...

"Congress has no oversight of it. Its an executive assassination ring essentially, and its been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

"Under President Bushs authority, theyve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. Thats been going on, in the name of all of us.

"Its complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. Its a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces youve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.

"In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.

"Ive had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they dont get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee?

"But theyre not gonna get before a committee.


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[cgypsygirl45]

It's not complicated. It's murder and all involved all the way to the top will find themselves judged. Obama was right this is no longer a Christian nation.

[DecentralizedByGuilt]

@cgypsygirl45

of this is still a christian nation, complete with "Jesus Riffles" and Obama is continuing Bush policy, so it doesn't really matter what that douchebag corporate whore says

[CoolLikeMiles]

When is enough going to be enough to put these assholes in jail for their blatant crimes?

[rubensni]

Hersh is the best investigative reporter around.

[akirafactor]

Criminals

In

Action

[larry1369]

Roll out the guillotines, the french had the right idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[larry1369]

Do the words"Above the law" have any meaning to you? That is the biggest problem currently plaguing the US. Watch the Stephen Segal movie and then start researching your govt. and JFK, MLK, RFK murders. I'm sure you will be shocked at the BS you've been spoonfed. I know I was certainly dismayed. It's our corporate owned media that is mind fucking us and covering up the truth. These are huge stories with mountains of evidence and great public interest. Why are they being kept from us?????????

[BornCitizen]

Fuck jail. Hang them in the streets!