{"id":192618,"date":"2009-03-12T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/12\/now-this-is-reassuring\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:17:00","slug":"now-this-is-reassuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/12\/now-this-is-reassuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Now This is Reassuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh is now saying that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html\">turned the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) into a personal assassination squad reporting directly to Dick Cheney<\/a>.  (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2009\/03\/11\/cheneys-assassination-squads\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/ericblackblog\/2009\/03\/11\/7310\/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Under President Bush\u2019s authority, they\u2019ve 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\u2019s been going on, in the name of all of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing as how it was Dick Cheney calling the shots, let&#8217;s be glad that it wasn&#8217;t unleashed against inconvenient people in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, I don&#8217;t think so.  I&#8217;ve always wondered about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Clifford_Baxter\">J. Clifford Baxter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh is now saying that Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 turned the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) into a personal assassination squad reporting directly to Dick Cheney. (see also here and here): Under President Bush\u2019s authority, they\u2019ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1062],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-espionage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}