More Hersh On Cheney's Death Squad

Leave it to Dick Cheney. Under his own authority and out of sight of the rest of America and Congress, Cheney turned the US on its head and created death squads.

We get the sense that the Bush administration violated the law of the land so much that its not possible to unravel its destructive work. It takes more time to unravel it than it did to create it, and the extent of the damage is massive.

The Daily Beast: The Man Who Knew Cheney's Secret

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh said at the time. He added: "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."

Yesterday, The New York Times reported the hidden program in question was a death squad authorized by Dick Cheney without congressional approval.