Needlenose

Muriel Kane reports for Raw Story:

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an “executive assassination ring” throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

. . . “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.”

My first reaction to reading this was skeptical: “Who did they assassinate?” After all, how could the claim be true if they completely failed to accomplish anything?

Then I remembered who was in charge.  Failure would be the expected result, wouldn’t it?

Eric Black has more on Hersh’s comments, in a less snarky vein. Ditto Emptywheel, with more on the incompetence angle. Kinda like the Keystone Kops, only with more dead bodies.

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We managed to import the posts, comments, and user accounts since our last major switch to WordPress. What didn’t make it through was the previous versions of the site that we were keeping around so old blog links wouldn’t break. Apparently, those old versions were to blame for having lax security.

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