Lawmaker won’t deny secret CIA program was ‘Cheney assassination ring’
This past March, as RAW STORY reported, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the Bush Administration was running an “executive assassination ring” which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
“It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,” Hersh stated. “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.”
“The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas of national security policy,” Huffington Post’s Sam Stein wondered aloud Thursday. “What program, exactly, was being kept secret?”
Panetta admitted that the CIA had been “concealing significant actions” from Congress since 2001.
Stein wrote that one “theory being bandied about concerns an ‘executive assassination ring’ that was allegedly set up and answered to former Vice President Dick Cheney,” though his article didn’t cite sources for the claim. The reporter spoke to Rep. Anna Eshoo, (D-Calif.), a signatory to the CIA letter, about the theory.
Asked if this was the basis of her letter to Panetta, Eshoo said she could not discuss what was a “highly classified program.” She did, however, note that when Panetta told House Intelligence Committee members what it was that had been kept secret, “the whole committee was stunned, even Republicans.” A Republican committee member told Who Runs Gov’s Greg Sargent it was something they hadn’t heard before.
MSNBC took another shot at asking Eshoo about it on Friday morning.
After correspondent Contessa Brewer summed up the “Cheney assassination ring” backstory, MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan remarked, “That’s one of those ‘it’s horrifying and not surprising’ in the same sentence for a lot of folks I know.”
Ratigan asked Eshoo, “Can you comment at all on Contessa’s report about a possible private army reporting to Dick Cheney being the thing about which you and others were misled?”
“No, I can’t,” Eshoo responded, “it’s highly classified and I can’t discuss it.”
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- WakeUpPeople
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Sometimes what you won't say, says it all.
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- WakeUpPeople
- 4 months ago
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Cheney was having lots of serious heart & circulation issues... known to cause personality changes. Under those conditions nothing Cheney did has surprised me. Apparently suddenly-changing blood pressure to the brain does weird things to a man, and probably, the first thing ta go would be a man's giving a damn what people feel when they're being waterboarded.
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- Gravity_Man
- 4 months ago
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They should put Cheney on the next season of True Blood. He looks like he's getting ready to pop some fangs.
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- jkudurog45
- 4 months ago
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Vile work in the corporate interests . Why is he free ?
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Cheney's punishment should be a Pacemaker manufactured by Haliburton.
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absolute power, corrupts absolutely
we are but pests to one so polluted with power
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Wait till it comes out what the Bush Administration was doing to Americans!
You're disgusted now, just wait. When it's confirmed President Bush, Cheney and the rest of the EVIL EMPIRE were working very hard to undermine YOU and AMERICA, that they took down honest Americans for the benefit of their friends, you will want them all swinging from the rafters.
I guarantee, the Bush administration was involved in selectively targeting Americans who they did not desire to see prosper, who threatened their friends in business, who threatened their dreams of domination.
Thank God something stopped them in their tracks and left them running and afraid of prosecution. But, what was it? Any body got any ideas?
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- VoyagerFilms
- 4 months ago
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JUST ADD BALLS & DIGNITY...
BRAND AMERICA DEPENDS ON IT !
GO USA, USA, USA ;)
EXECUTIVE ASSASINATION RING REPORTED DIRECTLY TO CHENEY OFFICE
http://current.com/items/89882237_executive-assasination-ring-reported-directly-...& JUST IN CASE THAT ISN'T ENOUGH ;)
HALLIBURTON / KBR STEALING US BLIND !
http://current.com/items/89801957_halliburton-kbr-stealing-us-blind.htm"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.
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- WhiteNoise
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