The Empire and the Right to Life of Human Beings by Fidel Castro Ruz

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by Fidel Castro Ruz
Global Research, October 28, 2010

In his latest reflections Fidel Castro refers to fragments of the text “The War Crimes of Stanley McChrystal, U.S. General” which, among other things, “reveals examples of how the Obama Administration continues walking in Bush`s footsteps”.

That’s terrific! So I exclaimed when I read down to the last line about the revelations of the famous journalist Seymour Hersh, printed in Democracy Now! and collected as one of the 25 most censored news items in the United States.

The material is entitled “The War Crimes of Stanley McChrystal, U.S. General” and it was included in Project Censored, put together by a university in California, including the essential paragraphs from those revelations.

Countdown: Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater assassination contractors: Lord Of The Christian Supremacist Flies

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August 20, 2009

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CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program

C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones – NYTimes.com h/t: CLG

The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War by Prof. Peter Dale Scott

US Still Paying Blackwater Millions By Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater-Xe-Mercenaries

Dick Cheney and Executive Assassination Ring

Conspiracy Theory Proved True! + Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

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MoxNewsDotCom
August 20, 2009

Rachel Maddow

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Democracy Now!
August 20, 2009

David Wise: The CIA, Licensed to Kill

Democracy Now!
August 11, 2009

Cheney Assassination Squad Details Revealed

RussiaToday
August 07, 2009

RT Contributor and Investigative Journalist Wayne Madsen says that Pentagon Officials revealed important details about the alleged JSOC Assassination Ring at a conference in Virginia just weeks before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Madsen reveals the details of these special hit squads as he speaks with RT’s Dina Gusovsky.

Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring” – Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target?

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by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, July 17, 2009
Antifascist Calling…

Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents.

The Wall Street Journal reported July 13 that “A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.”

Investigative journalist Siobhan Gorman writes, “The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn’t clear, and the CIA won’t comment on its substance.”

CIA linked to Bhutto’s murder? + The U.S. Assassinates People All The Time!

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RussiaToday
July 14, 2009

Washington is caught up in a political scandal centering on former Vice President Dick Cheney. It follows a move by the new CIA director Leon Panetta to cancel a secret plan to find and kill Al-Qaeda leaders.

The Man Who Knew Cheney’s Secret by Benjamin Sarlin

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by Benjamin Sarlin
The Daily Beast
July 14, 2009

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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via The Man Who Knew Cheney’s Secret – Page 1 – The Daily Beast

h/t: News From Underground

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Cheney Ordered The CIA Not To Inform Congress On Secret Program + Congress Angry

Dick Cheney and Executive Assassination Ring

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Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations

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What Is It That We’re Missing In The ‘Cheney Ordered The CIA To Lie’ Story?

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July 13, 2009 MSNBC Keith Olbermann

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Is Another Shoe About To Drop In The ‘Cheney Ordered The CIA To Lie’ Story?

Cheney Ordered The CIA Not To Inform Congress On Secret Program + Congress Angry

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July 10, 2009 MSNBC

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Members Of Congress Angry About Being Kept In The Dark About CIA Secret Program

Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project By Scott Shane

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By Scott Shane
NYTimes.com
July 11, 2009

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

[…]

The disclosure about Mr. Cheney’s role in the unidentified C.I.A. program comes a day after an inspector general’s report underscored the central role of the former vice president’s office in restricting to a small circle of officials knowledge of the National Security Agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded had hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort.

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via Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project – NYTimes.com

h/t: CLG

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Washington’s Blog: The CIA’s Rogue Operation

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What Did CIA Lie To Congress About? Cheney’s Personal Assassination Squad… Maybe?

Wiretap Report Questions Effectiveness Of Illegal NSA Spying

Countdown: Spying on us + Feingold questions Holder

from the archives:

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’ By Eric Black

What Did CIA Lie To Congress About? Cheney’s Personal Assassination Squad… Maybe?

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VOTERSTHINKdotORG
July 10, 2009

July 10, 2009 MSNBC

‘You can’t authorise murder’: Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing that targeted America’s enemies

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Global Research, May 14, 2009
By Abbas Al Lawati, Staff Reporter
Gulf News

Interview with Seymour Hersh

Dubai: Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently said that former US vice-president Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing that targeted America’s enemies abroad.

Video: Seymour Hersh interview (best viewed with Internet Explorer)

Gulf News catches up with him on his trip to Dubai for the Arab Media Forum to ask about those revelations as well as issues concerning Barack Obama, Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Egypt.

GULF NEWS: You have spoken about an assassination unit that reported to Cheney called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). There have been allegations that this unit was responsible for former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

SEYMOUR HERSH: I can’t verify [that]. What I said was, and what I have written more than once, is that there’s a special unit that does high-value targeting of men that we believe are known to be involved in anti-American activities, or are believed to be planning such activities.

In Cheney’s view this isn’t murder, but carrying out the “war on terror”. And in the view of me and my friends, including people in government, this is crazy. The vice president is committing a crime. You can’t authorise the murder of people. And it’s not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s in a lot of other countries, in the Middle East and in South Asia and North Africa and even central America.

Did newly announced top Afghan general run Cheney’s assassination wing?

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by Muriel Kane
The Raw Story
May 13, 2009

It was reported on Tuesday that Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal will be taking over command of US forces in Afghanistan, pending Senate approval.

McChrystal is presently director of the Joint Chiefs staff, but from September 2003 to August 2008, he headed the Joint Special Operations Command JSOC, which oversees such elite units as the Army’s Delta Force and the Navy SEALs.

Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh recently described the JSOC as an “executive assassination wing” controlled for many years by the office of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

[…]

via The Raw Story » Did newly announced top Afghan general run Cheney’s assassination wing?

h/t: ICH

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McChrystal Choice Suggests Special Ops Strikes Will Continue By Gareth Porter

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations

Seymour Hersh: Cheney’s Hit Squads

Countdown: Cheney’s Secret Assassination Ring

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’ By Eric Black