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Thursday, March 12, 2009 

 

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Hersh: Cheney Ran SS-Style Political Assassination Unit

Vice-President had his own military hit squad that carried out executions abroad

 

“…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.”

 

 

 

·       AIPAC Beats Freeman

 

·       Obama Intelligence Pick Charles Freeman Withdraws

 

·       Freeman Slams Israel Lobby On Way Out

 

"The outrageous agitationwill be seen by many to raise serious questions about whether the Obama administration will be able to make its own decisions about the Middle East and related issues...[It casts] doubt on its ability to consider, let alone decide what policies might best serve the United States rather than those of a Lobby intent on enforcing the will and interests of a foreign government [Israel]"The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its viewsand the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those it [Israel Lobby] favors."

~Charles Freeman

 

·       Freeman Withdrawal Is Victory for Israel Lobby

 

Stop Obama Israel Smears in Florida

 

Rep. Adam Hasner, the Republican Majority leader of the Florida State House called J Street and the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement "treacherous," saying J Street’s "vision for Israel more readily identifies with that of her enemies" and calling President Obama "anti-Israel."

 

Hasner's attack on J Street and the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement is consistent with the attacks used by far too many demagogic politicians in their effort to curry favor with the more hawkish, Israel-First elements of America’s Israel-Lobby.

·       If you don't agree with their version of what it means to be pro-Israel, you're no better than a terrorist. 

·       If you think a two-state solution is the best way to secure Israel's future and to serve US interests, you might as well join Hamas!

We've had it with politics like this and we're going to call out politicians like Hasner who neglect America’s political interests and seek to use Israel as a political football for their personal gain. 

With reports that Hasner plans to run for higher office in 2010, he needs to hear from Florida voters that politics based on rumor, emails and prejudice isn't going to fly any more.  

Join us in demanding Rep. Hasner apologize for his offensive statement by filling out the form at the headline link above (or here).

 

 

·       Israel “Cautions” US on Talking to Iran

 

·       US, Israel at Odds Over Iran's Nuclear Weapons Aspirations

 

·       Officials: Iran Does Not Have Key Nuclear Material   

 

·       Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States

 

·       Pope to Skip Holocaust Museum on Trip to Israel, Envoy Says

 

·       “Truth Commission” Proposal on Bush Crimes Reveals Precarious State of US Democracy

 

·       UN Report Says US Rendition Policy Broke International Law

 

·       UN to Investigate Secret US Jails

 

·       Imagine Texas Occupied By a Foreign Military – Would Texans Like It? (By U.S. Rep Ron Paul)

 

·       Do We Want the Republicans Back? They're as Awful as the Dems (By Laurence Vance)

 

·       The Fed Has Destroyed Your Retirement

 

·       Washington’s Budget Deficit Reaches $765B in Only 5 Months

 

·       Eleven Trillions and Counting: Imperial Washington’s “National Debt”