Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Dick Cheney vs Obama’s Drone Policy

Dick Cheney agrees with Obama on his use of drones. It was disturbing to read about the special assassination team that Cheney had reporting to him and that team is still active.

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Bruce

'Appearing on CBS today, Cheney said that the death from above program, and the accompanying kill list is a “good policy”, and constitutes the only part of Obama’s foreign policy that he agrees with.

Of course, Dick Cheney loves the assassination program. He loves assassination programs full stop. As the award-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh revealed in 2009, Cheney had his own SS-style political assassination unit that reported directly to him while he was Vice President.

Hersh revealed how the Joint Special Operations Command was an executive assassination unit that carried out political`assassinations abroad. . “It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently,” he explained at the time. “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.”'

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