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Who in their right mind would put this ditwit in charge of anything?



Journalist Seymour Hersh sparked my interest in military law in May 1970
when I picked up a copy of Harper's and read his article entitled "My
Lai 4: A report on the massacre and its aftermath." Nearly 40 years
later, he's still on the beat. Yesterday, in an appearance at the
University of Minnesota, journalist Seymour Hersh claimed that the Bush
Administration had adopted a policy authorizing the use of summary
executions of adversaries as one of its tools, and that the operation
reported to Dick Cheney. (You'll recall that in TV appearances in the
months after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney talked about the need to
practice the "black arts" and to reach out to the "dark side" in
battling the nation's terrorist adversaries.) Eric Black reports Hersh's
remarks at the MinnPost:

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. 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 it's 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. It's an executive assassination ring
essentially, and it's 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 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. It's complicated because the guys
doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would
normally call murder. It's a very complicated issue. Because they are
young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you've
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 to do to protect America. And then they find themselves
torturing people.

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