Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Countries

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Countries, Including in Latin America

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir earlier this month when he said the Bush administration ran an “executive assassination ring” that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving,” Hersh said.

There’s more—at least a dozen countries and perhaps more. The President has authorized these kinds of actions in the Middle East and also in Latin America, I will tell you, Central America, some countries. They’ve been—our boys have been told they can go and take the kind of executive action they need, and that’s simply—there’s no legal basis for it.

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Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Counties, Including in Latin America
March 31, 2009
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/31/seymour_hersh_secret_us_forces_carried

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
March 11, 2009
http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring