Crazy …
Crazy for repeating this guy’s crap. Crazy … Raw Story with more nonsense from Hersh. If you’ve every attended an event where he is speaking, you know that he blathers, gets excited, essentially makes things up, starts saying all kinds of things that will never see ink. Much like this, for example:
Hersh replied, “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 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.”
Hersh told MinnPost.com blogger Eric Black in an email exchange after the event that the subject was “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.” He is looking into it for a book, but he believes it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence “for even the most skeptical.”
Sure, why not. Could be. I recall the Bush admin did pretty much say they were going to war and intended to kill or capture these guys where they found them. Works for me. They’ve definitely been offing people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan without asking the ambassador for permission. Maybe that’s what he means. Who knows. Hersh is the proverbial broken clock. Right twice a day. Other times, in print or via his big fat mouth, he throws out stuff that no one ever hears about again. March 2011. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, apparently it’s just some crap he has no evidence for, doesn’t want to speak publicly about, but couldn’t help blurting out.
Here’s the MinnPost college scribbler’s report. It was a “Great Conversations” event with “legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.” Sounds great all right. What’s with universities paying all these charlatans to spew absurdities? Yeah, I know, never mind. I like this part.
Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.
Nor actually acquired an evidence for, apparently. A couple more times around the block and the young scribbler will learn the value of a subject’s confidence.
Protein Wisdom: Congressional investigation, please. You’d think the “no congressional oversight” claim would get their goat.
Topics: media, military, moronocy
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:58 pm on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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March 12th, 2009 at 10:41 am
[...] surprisingly, perhaps, most bloggers on the Right, such as Jules Crittenden and Dan Collins, think Hersh is crazy as a loon while most on the Left, like Marcy Wheeler, Kathy [...]
March 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
It’s probably worse that Hersh can tell: http://www.cansofcom.forces.gc.ca/index-eng.asp
Cheers