Sy Hersh: first they said "we don't torture" - "this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate"

[sabra]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-14/the-man-who-knew-cheneys-secret/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC1

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney’s secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to The Daily Beast about the next shoe to drop.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that Dick Cheney ran a secret hit squad that he kept hidden from congressional oversight.

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh said at the time. He added: "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."

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The Daily Beast tracked down Hersh in South Asia, where he says he has not been able to read the New York Times piece but has received calls buzzing about the report. Asked about the officials quoted in the Times' report who claimed that Cheney's assassination ring never became operational, Hersh offered a skeptical response.

"I said what I said, they can always say what they say," Hersh told The Daily Beast. "The last time they said the government doesn’t torture; this time it's the government doesn’t assassinate."

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. Lying then, lying now. I think more people are finally waking up. nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. kick and recommended for the truth !!!!

[Papa Boule]

3. It's not assassination. It's enhanced threat reduction techniques. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Next they'll say they're not developing corpse-eating killer robots.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3969010&mesg_id=3969010

[ControlledDemolition]

6. Or... 'terminate with extreme prejudice'. n/t

[troubledamerican]

5. Anthrax? What anthrax?

[lonestarnot]

7. No serial killing either I guess.