Seymour Hersh is of course the American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War. I had the great honor of seeing this extraordinary journalist a couple of years ago. People like Seymour Hersh give me hope that investigative journalism in America. He is a true American hero. It is also my supreme hope that the truth of the criminality of this last administration will be revealed to all and that justice will prevail. I do not want to see these lessons go unlearned and passed on instead to future generations. Peace ~ Molly
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Minneapolis, MN -- Speaking Tuesday night at the University of Minnesota's "Great Conversations" event, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh made news by letting slip allegations that the Executive branch has been running a covert military operation independent of Congressional oversight, code-named "The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad." In response to a question from a student in the audience, Hersh said, "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." Hersh said of the secret kill team, "Congress has no oversight of it. It's an executive assassination ring essentially, and it's been going on and on and on."
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Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney,
Had No Congressional Oversight
Investigative journalist Sy Hersh dropped a bombshell revelation on Monday
about international killings ordered under Bush.
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota [Monday] legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”
Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.
In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”
Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective ... that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”
The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled “America’s Constitutional Crisis,” looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government officials who had experience with many of the crises.
More: http://www.alternet.org/rights/131153/seymour_hersh:_%22executive_assassination_ring%22_answered_to_cheney,_had_no_congressional_oversight/
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Countdown: Cheney's Secret Assassination Ring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkYvOaA6xk
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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