Update 2:
[Hersh] said Gen McChrystal had run a special forces unit that engaged in “high value target activity”, but “while I have been critical of some of that unit’s activities in the pages of the New Yorker and in interviews, I have never suggested that he was involved in political assassinations or death squads on behalf of Mr Cheney, as the published stories state.” He regretted that none of the publications had contacted him before carrying the report. “This is another example of blogs going bonkers with misleading and fabricated stories and professional journalists repeating such rumours without doing their job – and that is to verify such rumours.”
Update:
In a telephone conversation with RAW STORY, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh refuted reports that he told an Arab television network former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.[...]
The only Arab television channel to interview Hersh recently is Gulf News, which spoke to him during the Arab Media Forum in Dubai. In the interview, Hersh does not even mention Bhutto’s name, but does condemn former Vice President Cheney for running an “executive assassination ring” which carried out operations all over the world.
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“In Cheney’s view this isn’t murder, but carrying out the ‘war on terror,’” he said. “And in the view of me and my friends, including people in government, this is crazy. The vice president is committing a crime. You can’t authorize the murder of people. And it’s not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s in a lot of other countries, in the Middle East and in South Asia and North Africa and even central America.”
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“If true, these operations violate longstanding U.S. policy regarding covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional oversight,” said Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), in reaction to the allegation. “Hersh is within a year or more of releasing a book that is said to include evidence of this allegation. However, we cannot wait a year or more to establish the truth.”
What’s one more?
I didn't read the Nation article as saying that Hersh accused Cheney of Bhuto's murder, but only that he said websites around the world were speculating that he did. (I'm having a deja vu about writing this post before. I hate it when that happens.) Apparently, however, it's been interpreted that way enough for Hersh to refute it.
Original post:
The Nation is talking about claims that Cheney's hit squad targeted both Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. And that the hit squad was led by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. We do know that McChrystal was near the top in the torture scenario.
It would be hard to overestimate the evil of Dick Cheney, but I'll reserve judgment on these claims for now - public judgment at least.
....but hey, you do what you want....you will anyway.
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