Ex-Joint Chiefs Chairman Myers Doubts Hersh Assassination Squad Story
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Put Richard Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the category of those who don't buy Seymour Hersh's recent claim that during the last administration, Vice President Cheney's office ran a covert "executive assassination ring."
Myers sat down last week with my colleague Andrew Burt to discuss the former general's new book, Eyes on the Horizon. You can read other excerpts from the interview (and it's interesting stuff) in our weekly digital edition, but when Andrew asked him about Hersh's charges, Myers said that he doubted it.
"I don't know what Seymour's talking about, frankly," says Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001-2005. "If something like that existed during my tenure, I never heard about it, never discussed it, never thought about, and I think I would have."
Of course, in fairness to Hersh, what else is Myers going to say? And Hersh did say that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs was out of the loop anyway.
If you missed it, here's how Hersh described his allegations:
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.
Perhaps in the fullness of time we'll find out.
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I believe Hersh. Cheney was and is the most blackhearted and evil man ever to stain the office he held. Secrecy of dimensions unknown til then, death and torture, the death of habeas corpus and posse comitatus, the end of Americans being free from illegal snooping...Cheney was a PART of 9-11.
recall the FACT that NOT ONE reporter has ever asked the trillion dollar question: " Mr. Cheney, trans. Sec. Norman Mineta testified before the 9-11 Commission, under oath ( an act that both Bush and Cheney refused to do) that Cheney was ' fully in charge' in the bunker a half hour before the liar Cheney said he arrived there..and he related that a ' young oficer' stuck his head in the door over and over announcing the distance of the ' plane' approaching the Pentagon.." 40 miles out"....30 miles out...etc".
When the young officer got to " 10 miles out", he asked Cheney:" Sir, does the ORDER still stand?" Cheney, obviously irritated, snapped his neck around and snarled" Of course it does...". WHY has no one simply asked this monster: " What was the ORDER?".
If the ORDER had been a ' shhot down order' then the ' plane approaching would have been taken down by the anti-aircraft missle defense around the area, including at the White house. BUT NO action was taken...no defense was used, and the attack was launched against the Pentagon. Granted, NO PLANE hit the Pentagon, and no evidence presented so far shows any sign of a huge passenger plane whatsoever.
The FBI even refuses FOI requests for the serial numbers of the ' planes' to be verified...they also refuse to release the 80 some odd videos they have of the attack. They cannot because it would prove an inside job.
So Hersh's story is quite believable...the least Cheney would do is assassinate...he is a cold blooded murderer and part and parcel of the 9-11 events.
Just visit; patriotsquestion911.com and see the best and most loyal of Americans discuss the facts about 9-11. It was a set up all the way. If Hersh and others would simpluy air the evidence, it would cause an upheaval that would send Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and others to the Hauge for war crimes trials. I hope they all get hung with the same rope that hung the Nazi forebears that spawned the fascist regimne that Cheney lead for 8 years.
Cheney is a filthy word; may his name always mean the worst of humankind.
President Kennedy and special operations: an email to President-elect Obama on 11-22-08
Many no longer mark this anniversary, in large part due to the corruption of the Failed Estate. How many people have heard of George Joannides or of Jefferson Morley's futile efforts to uncover the treason embodied by Joannides, E. Howard Hunt and the other assassins of Operation 40? Few, although it is true that somewhere between 70% and 90% of the American people remain convinced a conspiracy took President Kennedy's life. As for the other 10-30%, I'm in Colorado but am aware of the celebrations going on in Little Havana in Miami today. Our freedom-fighters against Fidel certainly don't forget this day; for them, it's to be celebrated as much as Christmas.
I took this picture on Sunday, September 27th 1964; coincidentally, the day the Warren Commission Report was published. My family had returned in August from Okinawa, where my father had been operations officer of the Pacific Command Counterinsurgency School, C Company Commander of the 1st Special Forces Group, and then organizer and Support Battalion Commander of of the 173d Airborne Brigade. (In April 1962 he had graduated third in his class of 77 American and 23 Allied officers at the Unconventional Warfare School at Ft. Bragg, so it's fair to say he excelled at whatever assignment he was given.) While at the CIA's PCCS, he secretly trained soldiers and guerrillas from all over Asia, including the Khampas infiltrated back into Tibet to fight the PLA. He was also training and sending Green Berets to their deaths in Vietnam and Laos.
My father joined Special Forces because of his great admiration for President Kennedy; after the Bay of Pigs the president appealed for volunteers to Special Forces and my father did so immediately. He had been an artillery forward observer in Patton's Third Army and a liberator of Dachau; he had fought in Korea as a member of the ultra-secret Special Operations Division of the Army Chemical Corps; his sense of duty, honor, country was unsurpassed. On a first visit to Arlington soon after arriving from Okinawa, some of my family visited President Kennedy's grave and my father was upset to discover there was no green beret along with the other service hats; perhaps he suspected it had something to do with on-going opposition to the beret in the Army and JCS. He decided to return to the grave wearing his beret and all his medal ribbons on his blouse, an impressive collection from combat in two wars (which would be added to in Vietnam in '68-'69). Approaching the young honor guard on duty inside the fence, my father asked permission to put his beret on the grave. The crowd of several dozen visitors knew they were witnessing something extraordinary when the guard snapped to attention, barked "Yes, SIR," and opened the gate for my father to come inside. His beret is at "8 o'clock" near the flame; I wish I'd taken the photo at the moment he placed it but I was standing still as everyone else.
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