sabra (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 02:44 PM
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New Seymour Hersh Bombshell? Hersh describes Cheney's "executive assassination ring"
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http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/i...
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At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?”
Replied Hersh:
“Yuh. 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.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5231653Hersh creates a fairy tale based on some reality (Adm. McRaven did order a two week standdown of some JSOC operations last month) and a whole bunch of BS (everything else). Apparently he is incapable of figuring out the relationship between JSOC, USSOCOM, the Joint Chiefs, the Office of the President, CIA, SecDef, Congress, etc. But, as always, secret, black, nebulous, incredibly unlikely military units are out performing all sort of nefarious deeds in the Land of DUmmies:
Lars39 (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 02:46 PM
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2. Holy crap!
Are they still around, reporting only to Cheney?!
Yes DUmmie, a joint command of the US military is reporting to a single American civilian. Since I guide USJFCOM from my livingroom in my spare time I got a vote. I signed off on it for five shares of Haliburton. Idiot.
MinneapolisMatt (453 posts) Wed Mar-11-09 02:52 PM
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8. Paul Wellstone.
You bet it's happening here too.
Of course.
file83 (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 05:01 PM
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51. What about the "suicide" of Raymond Lemme, the FDOT detective who
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 05:02 PM by file83
just days before he was found dead in a seedy Georgia motel room told people close to him that he was on to something "big" and that it went "all the way to the top"?
He was investigating money laundering operations tied to the Florida Department of Transportation and drug trafficking. Cheney was probably just protecting Jeb Bush.
There were fundamental flaws in that case that the Police conveniently overlooked.
Who?
defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 10:34 PM
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125. I agree . . . certainly someone has been clearing the way for the right-wing ...
for decades ---
AND, keeping us leaderless -- which is something we should be noticing and talking about!
Is this the BFEE or the VRWC? I need an org-chart.
YOY (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 02:53 PM
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9. That dead madame comes to mind.
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 03:06 PM by YOY
She said that she had some big names to name...including one very big one. Said she's never kill herself. She then "killed herself". A little too much suicide going on among people who either have or could have something on Dead-eye Dick.
Rumor mill in DC had it that Dick likes his hookers. A lot.
Rumors that when his buddy got shot in the face there were hookers involved there as well.
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 02:57 PM
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11. Yep.
That was some freaky shit. The anthrax scientist who "killed himself" didn't sound quite right, either.
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 03:23 PM
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22. Don't forget Dr. David Kelley
The British UN Weapons Inspector who "suicided" in 2003. (Disputed Blair's 45-minute claim on Iraq).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_ (weapons_expert)
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 05:34 PM
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64. Don't forget John Kokal, State Department Iraq expert
He "fell" to his death at the State Department. From the roof. In his socks. Just after opposing the war.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
The body count grows...
DemoTex (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 05:11 PM
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56. Baxter of Enron, too (suicided with rat-shot).
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 05:11 PM by DemoTex
Maybe even Kenny-boy Lay: Heart attack, no autopsy, cremation.
windbreeze (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 05:54 PM
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71. How about the assassination of S.Vienamese Pres..back in "63"..
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 05:55 PM by windbreeze
just a couple weeks before JFK??....and...more recently JFK jr...I suggest that Mr.Hersch take no small planes...wait, now that I think about it, wasn't there a guy who was going to testify just recently, who took a small plane that crashed...??The people involved in all of this are NOT going to want the information to become public...of that, I am positive...wb
...and grows. And SOCOM, which didn't exist until 1987 now has time travel capability. Traveled back to 1963 to start the Vietnam War. This adds validity to TiT's claim that he transported Seal Team 3 twenty years into the past.
defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 10:38 PM
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129. There's a very long and active list going back at least to the JFK coup
which was really a coup on democratic government ---
Malcolm X was one of the first to point to what the CIA was doing around the
world at that time -- and most Americans didn't have a hint of what was happening
They killed Kennedy and Malcom X.
[vinylsolution (401 posts) Wed Mar-11-09 03:27 PM
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25. Cheney is a murder machine....
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 03:28 PM by vinylsolution
Consider the strange deaths of Bruce Ivins, Hunter S Thompson, Jean Palfrey, Paul Wellstone, Dr David Kelly, and not forgetting the attempted (anthrax) murders of Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle.
It's common knowledge that Cheney was on Jean Palfrey's list of 'clients'.
And they killed, or attempted to kill, all these people.
truedelphi (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 03:58 PM
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31. I Know I Know that once again this will be me out in right field at
Edited on Wed Mar-11-09 03:59 PM by truedelphi
Tinfoil Hat Stadium - but
Andy Stephenson - contracts pancreatic cancer, immediately during/after his investigations into Stolen Election 2004. He died July 5th 2005.
The first two women who blew the whistle on Black Box voting (circa late 1970's) both victims of fast acting, fatal and rare cancers during their investigations.
Aaron Russo - produces documentary exposing the IRS, and the Federal Reserve, contracts cancer and died, (Aug 2008) within a year of the doc's release.
And SOCOM now has weaponized cancer.
And they killed Andy.
You bastards!!!!!!
