Ex-Joint Chiefs Chairman Myers Doubts Hersh Assassination Squad Story

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Wherepreviously of 4:10PM December 18, 2009

General Myers thinks he would have known about JSOC??
Riiight.

Moe Badderman of NV 12:34PM July 17, 2009

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.

Rich Moore of NC 11:42AM March 20, 2009

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.

Louis K. Jarvis of CO 1:35AM March 20, 2009

Seymour Hersh is a caricature and an imbecile. Roggio understated it when he said, "Hersh has made a living of making fantastic claims that don't quite live up to the hype. Chalk this one up as another Hersh fantasy."
His wild claims are perfect for the pseudo intellectuals who read The New Yorker.

Rick of NY 6:14PM March 19, 2009

A press release on the website of Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina states that she "will join First Lady Michelle Obama Thursday afternoon (March 12) for her visit to Fayetteville.. Prior to that, Senator Hagan will receive a briefing on the operations of the Joint Special Operations Command." Interesting timing for Sen. Hagan's visit with Vice Admiral William McRaven and the JSOC: two days earlier Seymour Hersh had identified this command as Cheney's "executive assassination ring." So let's look back at a NEWSWEEK article in March 2004, "The Hunt Heats Up: The Man In Charge of Catching Osama Bin Laden 'Can Drive A Knife Through Your Ribs In A Nanosecond.'" The article reports of then-Rear Admiral McRaven, "NEWSWEEK has learned that McRaven is heading up Task Force 121, a covert, miniature strike force with a command structure so secretive that McRaven's role hasn't even even been reported until now." In 1968-69 when my father was General Creighton Abrams' staff adviser for special operations and a senior Green Beret commander of the CIA's Special Operations Group (euphemistically referred to as "Studies and Observations Group"), there were only four officers in all of Vietnam other than Gen. Abrams who had clearance to attend Lt. Col. Jarvis' briefings--this despite the fact he was "merely" a light colonel and they were four stars. On the other hand, they knew that my father's missions ultimately came down from Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of which can be confirmed by General Myers, former chairman of the JCS. (With a little digging he would discover that the Gray Ghosts of SOG-36 gave Col. Jarvis a plaque that reads, To That Famous Commander in Vietnam Who Said, "Balls to the wall, all the way, bite the bullet and no slack.") My father lost many dozens of brave men on still-classified missions throughout Southeast Asia; some of them were Navy SEALs like Vice Admiral McRaven. I would like to make an offer, then, to him and President Obama. In 1974 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden in March 2001 blew up the two giant Buddha statues, one of the greatest cultural losses in the history of humanity. My Farsi is a little rusty, but if you really want to find bin Laden, I suggest the way to do it is through a Peace Corps volunteer, not a SEAL, Green Beret or CIA paramilitary. But what if his message is the same as two weeks after 9-11? "I have said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States.. Is it not true that there exists a government within the government in the United States? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks."

Louis K. Jarvis of CO 5:09PM March 19, 2009

The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is a component command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and is charged to study special operations requirements and techniques to ensure interoperability and equipment standardization, plan and conduct special operations exercises and training, and develop Joint Special Operations Tactics. It was established on December 15, 1980, in the aftermath of the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the unsuccessful attempt to rescue the 53 hostages from the American embassy in Tehran, Iran.[1] It is located at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, USA.
Seymour Hersh at a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota on 10.March 2009 said: "Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. . and "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."
Bill Roggio pointed out that the JSOC reports to the Secretary of Defense and falls under congressional oversight. Roggio said "Hersh has made a living of making fantastic claims that don't quite live up to the hype. Chalk this one up as another Hersh fantasy."
Journalist Shaun Mullen wrote of an email exchange between Hersh and a Minneapolis reporter in which Hersh said "that the subject was “not something I wanted to dwell about in public,” that he is looking into it for a book that it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence “for even the most skeptical.”

Larry of CA 3:00PM March 19, 2009

Maybe those guys were on "the grassy knoll" too.
Can't believe you are succumbing to the wacky notions of conspiracy crackpots. Now, if you thought the Clinton's hit squad was involved - well, then you might be on to something...

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:32PM March 19, 2009