Did newly announced top Afghan general run Cheney's assassination wing?

[MiaCulpa]

Source: Raw Story

It was reported on Tuesday that Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal will be taking over command of US forces in Afghanistan, pending Senate approval.

McChrystal is presently director of the Joint Chiefs staff, but from September 2003 to August 2008, he headed the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees such elite units as the Army's Delta Force and the Navy SEALs.

Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh recently described the JSOC as an "executive assassination wing" controlled for many years by the office of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Speaking to a University of Minnesota audience in March, Hersh called JSOC "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. ... Congress has no oversight of it. ... It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/did-newly-announced-top-afghan-general-run-cheneys-assassination-wing/

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-Diane

[EFerrari]

1. Perfect.

:sarcasm:

[goclark]

2. Does Keith know about this ~

As an aside, I have a question.
I'm African American and I just wondered if all of the Generals that have key assignments all have to be White?

I do recall one general at the beginning of the Iraq War that was African American ( or any other minority) but since then, I can't recall anyone in authority that was other than White.

He quickly disappeared from his 2 minutes of fame and since that time - zero to my knowledge.

[nashville_brook]

3. i don't think Obama has control of these guys. i think this is a stick in his eye.

[Kaleko]

4. K & R

[Vickers]

5. *bump*

and

R