Seymour Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office

Seymour Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office
Seymour Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office

Posted by , AlterNet at 2:20 PM on March 11, 2009.

"Under President Bush's authority, they've been going into countries ... finding people on a list and executing them and leaving."

"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. ...

SOURCE: ALTER NET