Russia Today:Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped another bombshell, claiming that Dick Cheney was running an “executive assassination ring” which reported directly to him during the Bush years.
“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,” Hersh said. “Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.”
According to Hersh, the Joint Special Operations Command, part of the special operation community set up independently, is responsible for carrying out such acts. The journalist said that they do not report to anybody, though in the Bush- Cheney days they reported directly to Cheney.
“It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,” Hersh said. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve 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. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.”
Gulf News reporter Abbas Al Lawati sat down with investigative reporter Seymour Hersh at the Arab Media Forum:http://archive.gulfnews.com/gntv/videos/10313072.htmlCNN - Seymour Hersh - Cheney's JSOC hit squad(s) update:The assassination of political leaders has been banned since 1976 — but suspected terrorists are a different story. When it comes to top al Qaeda leaders like Osama bin Laden, American policy remains unambiguous, with President Obama saying “we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants.” Abu Musab al Zarqawi is the highest profile commander killed by American forces so far.
Former national security adviser Frances Townsend, a CNN national security contributor, says the list of authorized terror targets — people who can be killed without a trial -– numbers fewer than 100 who helped plan attacks or are "plotting the death and destruction of Americans or American interests around the world.” The U.S. military and the intelligence services, she says, are given authority to capture or kill them wherever they're found.
Townsend said the list of targets for the president to sign off on was the product of interagency collaboration that included the military, intelligence, law enforcement, and the Justice Department
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