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Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Minnesota Post
Posted: March 21st, 2009
http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/invest...
[Pulitzer prize winning] investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an executive assassination ring. [In reply to a question, Hersh said] "After 9/11 ... 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. Today, there was a story in the New York Times that ... mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC its called. 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 [Cheney]. ... Congress has no oversight of it. Its an executive assassination ring essentially, and its been going on and on. 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." He added that both the press and the public let down their guard in the aftermath of 9/11. The major newspapers joined the [Bush] team, Hersh said. Top editors passed the message to investigative reporters not to pick holes in what Bush was doing.
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