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| Let's Hear it for "Cheney's Assassination Squads" |
| 2011-05-03 |
| Mark Hemingway reminds us that back in the bad old days of the Bush administration, when the Joint Special Operations Command carried out extra-judicial, theoretically "illegal," and highly effective raids, liberals referred to them as "Dick Cheney's Assassination Squad:" Under Bush, JSOC was routinely smeared by the left and placed at the center of many Bush/Cheney conspiracy theories. Specifically, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney's personal assassination squad: Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. "It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently," he explained. "They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it." "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 horror! Now that JSOS has become Barack Obama's "assassination ring," it will be interesting to see whether Hersh and his fellow liberals are able to mount the same indignation. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #9 Let's put it this way: the other day a Leftist I know went on a rant about class discrimination in America, punctuated repeatedly by the phrase "stupid Rednecks." When I pointed out that rural Americans were also a social class, he became agitated and baffled. That's the level of "intellect" you're dealing with. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2011-05-03 16:41 |
| #8 "But one wonders if anyone on the Left will have the courage to acknowledge that the accolades being heaped on Obama are a direct result from policies he has routinely castigated." This one doesn't wonder, DepotGuy. And I doubt you do either. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-03 15:01 |
| #7 Some of the final conclusions are already becoming clear. The O-Teams "actionable intel" resulted from the platform that Obama himself repeatedly said violated American principles. The composite picture of the AQ courier network was indeed developed over a number of years proceeding Obama's election. And the cruel truth is that the base intelligence was most likely extracted from multiple detainees and some through enhanced interrogation tactics. Further, the detainees were obviously debriefed at GITMO, Bahgram, and multiple other CIA black sites - all of which Obama denounced as both illegal and immoral. And as Hemingway reminds us here, the team that actually took out Bin Laden was also developed during the proceeding administration. This is the platform of which confidential details were leaked to the press and then ridiculed by the Professional Left. Bottom line, President Obama and his team deserve credit for exploiting this particular courier and taking out UBL - BIG TIME. But one wonders if anyone on the Left will have the courage to acknowledge that the accolades being heaped on Obama are a direct result from policies he has routinely castigated. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-05-03 13:52 |
| #6 How much sooner would we have caught this animal if the NYT had not blown the cover on so many intel operations? The reason OBL/UBL (who cares he's dead) used couriers is because the NYT blew up a story about how well the NSA could monitor cell phone traffic. I venture with those programs still in place, the tracking of money through the world banking system, the real time monitoring of cell phones and the monitoring of international telephone calls between selected countries, we would probably have nailed him years ago. Thanks to the NYT for making our lives difficult. Of course, I wonder why those little backstabbing jerks in the CIA that were feeding all of this stuff to the NYT out of "righteous indignation" didn't feed the story on us tracking al-Kuwaiti. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-03 10:31 |
| #5 If Cheney and Bush had gotten ULB during their administration, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama and a host of other leftists politicians would have bitched that they had done something wrong/illegal and would have called for Congressional investigations and impeachment. One doesn't have to look too far back to recall Harry Reid crying we have lost--doom and gloom. Or references to Gen. Petraeus as Gen. BetrayUs during hearings. Or Hillary suggesting he was a liar. I'm glad our military got UBL. Our military and intelligence community was outstanding. Seal Team 6 was heroic. I'll give credit to Obama for making the right call despite it being the first time I'm aware of. Kudos. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-05-03 10:12 |
| #4 Given his poor gun safety it may be just as well he wasn't in the service. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-05-03 09:08 |
| #3 His five draft deferments and poor shotgun safety record aside, so do I. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-03 08:55 |
| #2 I LIKE Cheney. I always have. |
| Posted by: de Medici3489 2011-05-03 08:50 |
| #1 Did anyone catch the dipshitettes on The View gloating about Obama? You know that if it happened on Bush's watch they'd be screaming bloody murder. Mental illness is when your hypocrisy and fecklessness doesn't even register with you. |
| Posted by: jack salami 2011-05-03 08:12 |