Tuesday, May 19, 2009

More on Hersh - Cheney Hit Squad

[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.”

  Daily Times

"Engaged in high value target activity?" That's not a hit squad?

If I were spreading word about a hit squad's leader and implicating a man who shot a "friend" in a "hunting accident", I'd be keen to publicly disavow having said anything, too.


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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