JSOC as VP Cheney's Personal Assasination Squad

afchic · 03-13-2009, 14:41

Just saw this through another source. I just about spit iced tea all over my computer monitor, through my nose. Christ, the things people will spin to get a story.

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 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."

"It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh stated. "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."

Hersh told MinnPost.com blogger Eric Black in an email exchange after the event that the subject was "not something I wanted to dwell about in public." He is looking into it for a book, but he believes it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence "for even the most skeptical."

Stories have been coming out about covert Pentagon assassination squads for the last several years. In 2003, Hersh himself reported on Task Force 121, which operated chiefly out of the Joint Special Operations Command. Others stories spoke of a proposed Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group.

As Hersh noted in Minnesota, the New York Times on Monday described the Joint Special Operations Command as overseeing the secret commando units in Afghanistan whose missions were temporarily ordered halted last month because of growing concerns over excessive civilian deaths.

However, it appears that Hersh is now on the trail of some fresh revelation about these squads and their connection to Vice-President Cheney that goes well beyond anything that has previously been reported.

**Kyobanim** · 03-13-2009, 15:35

He's read too many Vince Flynn books

afchic · 03-13-2009, 15:37

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Originally Posted by Kyobanim

He's read too many Vince Flunn books

Hey now, I like Vince.

Gypsy · 03-13-2009, 16:20

Three words, dude. Heavy duty tinfoil.

**Kyobanim** · 03-13-2009, 16:59

Yeah, Vince does have a way with words

trent · 03-14-2009, 01:12

I think he watched the Unit too much. I also blame Tom Clancy.

Dozer523 · 03-14-2009, 08:44

Poor Seymore, spent too much time Under the Bleachers ( the title of his first investigative novel) and now suffers from Stupidity Migranes. Hearing of this sort of journalism really makes me miss Hunter S Thompson.

**Team Sergeant** · 03-14-2009, 09:20

I'm sure the men at JSOC enjoyed the comic relief.

Why do all the idiots pick on Special Operations??? The article would read better if the moron wrote about the Air Force 344th Special Services Squadron as a highly trained hit squad serving poisoned food to "enemies of the state".

Dozer523 · 03-14-2009, 09:30

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

I'm sure the men at JSOC enjoyed the comic relief.

Why do all the idiots pick on Special Operations??? The article would read better if the moron wrote about the Air Force 344th Special Services Squadron as a highly trained hit squad serving poisoned food to "enemies of the state".

Shhhhhhhh. I didin't think we were supposed to talk about that. afchic, how's the assassin recruiting going anyway?

Richard · 03-14-2009, 09:30

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

The article would read better if the moron wrote about the Air Force 344th Special Services Squadron as a highly trained hit squad serving poisoned food to "enemies of the state".

That unit was quietly disbanded by Chaney after the fiasco in Japan where President Bush accidentally got the food meant to go to the PM. Fortunately, an aide saw the mistake and gave the POTUS the antidote which only caused him to throw up on his host. The MSM bought the cover story--until the 4099th Mess Kit Repair Squadron (Provisional) (Combat) (Heavy) (SO Capable) out of Hurlburt Field lost an airman who tore his protective glove while cleaning the POTUS's plate and accidentally exposed himself to the agent when he picked his nose. It's true - I got it third hand from a guy claiming to be the sole surviving member of that hit team and is now undergoing VA treatment for PTSD and Agent 99 exposure.

Richard's $.02

**Kyobanim** · 03-14-2009, 09:52

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Originally Posted by Richard

That unit was quietly disbanded by Chaney after the fiasco in Japan where President Bush accidentally got the food meant to go to the PM. Fortunately, an aide saw the mistake and gave the POTUS the antidote which only caused him to throw up on his host. The MSM bought the cover story--until the 4099th Mess Kit Repair Squadron (Provisional) (Combat) (Heavy) (SO Capable) out of Hurlburt Field lost an airman who tore his protective glove while cleaning the POTUS's plate and accidentally exposed himself to the agent when he picked his nose. It's true - I got it third hand from a guy claiming to be the sole surviving member of that hit team and is now undergoing VA treatment for PTSD and Agent 99 exposure.

Richard's $.02

Damn Richard! Is your real name Vince Flynn?

PSM · 03-14-2009, 10:08

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Originally Posted by Richard

Agent 99 exposure.

Got pix?

I only found this:

afchic · 03-14-2009, 11:02

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

I'm sure the men at JSOC enjoyed the comic relief.

Why do all the idiots pick on Special Operations??? The article would read better if the moron wrote about the Air Force 344th Special Services Squadron as a highly trained hit squad serving poisoned food to "enemies of the state".

I know I should be offended by that comment, but I can't be while I am laughing.

swpa19 · 03-14-2009, 11:44

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He is looking into it for a book, but he believes it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence "for even the most skeptical."

And, this is called "pre-marketing".

RICHARD: Are you really the "man behind the curtain"?

greenberetTFS · 03-14-2009, 12:24

RICHARD: Are you really the "man behind the curtain"?[/QUOTE]

There are "shades" of RICHARD that I'm privy too,but if I told you,well you know, Than I'd only have to................

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