..."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.
"It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.
"In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people..."
Now one wonders if this wing still does not report to anybody, whether they've returned to plausible deniablity mode, or whether they're still reporting to the same people they have for the last 10 years.
What one doesn't wonder at is the total lack of official outrage. It's only here in the wilds of cyberspace you can find people even talking about it. In the more main$tream boards it's "Sy Hersch was all wrong about Iran, why should we believe him now".
But was he, really, any more than Clinton was wrong about the Y2K danger? In both cases people got motivated to action, and something bad didn't happen. Quite likely because people got motivated to act.
This issue, though, faces the same kind of progressive inertia now that every other issue the Oborg disregard.
Plausible deniablity from those in denial mode. It's the Economy, stupid. Certainly it's the stupid the Company find useful idiots.
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