Tyranny requires a secret, unaccountable police force. Perhaps that’s why John F. Kennedy said “[I will] smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind.”

Seymour Hersh is a hero to me. He’s been fearless in exposing government lies about war, foreign policy and liberty.

“Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an ‘executive assassination ring’ throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of ‘America’s Constitutional Crisis’ whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day.

Hersh replied, ‘After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.’

Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. ‘It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently,’ he explained. ‘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,’ Hersh stated. ‘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.’” (Read more from rawstory.com)

I’m putting this up in honor of our newly appointed secretary of state.

For more about Vince Foster’s death, click here.

Also, click here to learn about the SCORES of Clinton investigators, bodyguards, lovers, journalists, donors, partners, and associates who’ve committed suicide, died in small plane crashes, or under suspicious circumstances.

Jörg Haider, a charismatic far-right Austrian politician was killed in a car accident on October 11th. Since then, there has been rampant speculation about foul play, connecting his death to the politician’s outspokenness about holding bankers responsible.

From list last interview:

“Q. Highly-paid managers caused the misery. Is there sufficient cause to prosecute them for their irresponsibility?

HAIDER: Those who thoughtlessly dealt with entrusted money must reap the consequences. We need stricter oversight, a change of the criminal law, and a special courtyard for economic crimes. Those who earned gigantic sums of money are not poor. Their criminal responsibility must be established, then they must be locked up.” (Read more at rumormillnews.com)

Consipracy theories have been rejected by the Austrian police who said he had a blood alcohol level of 1.8.

SEE ALSO:

Haider widow believes death ‘not an accident’
The widow of Joerg Haider believes the far-right Austrian politician’s death in a car crash may not have been an accident and has saved his body from cremation for a second post mortem, a Vienna newspaper has reported. (Read more from telegraph.co.uk)

Read more at cato-at-liberty.org

-The Lives of Others
about the totalitarian excesses of East Germany.

-JFK
which was hugely slandered by critics before and after its release.

Both deal with an increasingly common theme in my thinking: history as a struggle not between nations, but between people and their governments.

Read More from statesman.com

(Read Alex Jones’ Article about what Big Media does and does not report.)

My Summary:

AP Reports on the discovery of additional evidence, and quotes a 6th floor museum curator to cast doubt on it.

Big Media does NOT report this death bed confession of a former CIA agent.

Nor are they interested in Barr McClellan’s book which implicates LBJ.

The last time Big Media showed an interest was when They (including the Washington Post’s national security correspondent George Larder) were falling over each other to slander, discourage and discredit Oliver Stone’s JFK. Read the section on media reaction.

Remember my earlier post – an open letter by Norman Mailer, Oliver Stone, and others:

“It is disappointing to learn that the Central Intelligence Agency filed motions in federal court in May 2005 to block disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty-one years ago. The spirit of the law is clear. The JFK Records Act of 1992, approved unanimously by Congress, mandated that all assassination-related records be reviewed and disclosed ‘immediately.’ When Morley filed his lawsuit in December 2003, thirteen published JFK authors supported his request for the records in an open letter to The New York Review of Books (www.nybooks.com/articles/16865). Eighteen months later, the CIA is still stonewalling. The agency now acknowledges that it possesses an undisclosed number of documents…which it will not release in any form. Thus records related to Kennedy’s assassination are still being hidden for reasons of ‘national security.’”

Why didn’t the media covering this important development?

This is why I don’t balk when Ron Paul discusses reigning in the CIA.

From an open letter by Oliver Stone (director of JFK), Norman Mailer, and others.

“It is disappointing to learn that the Central Intelligence Agency filed motions in federal court in May 2005 to block disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty-one years ago. The spirit of the law is clear. The JFK Records Act of 1992, approved unanimously by Congress, mandated that all assassination-related records be reviewed and disclosed ‘immediately.’ When Morley filed his lawsuit in December 2003, thirteen published JFK authors supported his request for the records in an open letter to The New York Review of Books (www.nybooks.com/articles/16865). Eighteen months later, the CIA is still stonewalling. The agency now acknowledges that it possesses an undisclosed number of documents…which it will not release in any form. Thus records related to Kennedy’s assassination are still being hidden for reasons of ‘national security.’”

“She told us if anything happened to her, that we were to investigate it.” (More)

I just watched The Clinton Chronicles. It’s full of newspaper headlines, names, dates, and stuff you can look up.

Here is a partial list of dead investigators, bodyguards, lovers, journalists, donors, partners, and associates of the Clintons:

Charles Ruff, Tony Moser, James McDougal, John Millis, Ron Miller, Sandy Hume, Daniel Dutko, Mary Mahoney, Vincent Foster, Admiral Jeremy Boorda, William Colby, Maj Gen William Robertson, Col William Densberger, Col Robert Kelly, Spc Gary Rhodes, Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Alan G. Whicher, Cpl Eric Fox, Ssg Brian Haney, Sgt Tim Sabel, Maj William Barkley, Cpt Scott Reynolds, Aldo Franscoia, Cpt Kevin Earnest, Cpt Kimberly Wielhouwer, 2lt Benjamin Hall, Ssg Michael Smith Jr., Sr. Airman Rick Merritt, Ssg Michael York, Sr. Airman Billy Ogston, Airman Thomas Stevens, Victor Raiser II, Montgomery Raiser, Paul Tully, Ed Willey, Hershell Friday, Duane Garrett, Daniel Dutko, Luther Parks, James Bunch, John Wilson, Bill Shelton, Kathy Furguson, Gandy Baugh, Dr. Ronald Rogers, Stanley Huggins, Florence Martin, Calvin Walraven, Neil Moody, Johnny Franklin Lawhon Jr., Col James Sabow, Eric Butera, Maynard Webb, Caetano Carani, Terrance Yeakey, Suzanne Coleman, Paula Grober, Judy Gibbs, Paul Wilcher, Jon Parnell Walker, Ron Brown, Barbara Wise, Charles Meissner, Kevin Ives, Don Henry, Keith Coney, Keith McKaskle, Gregory Collins, Paul Olson, Jeff Rhodes, James Milam, Richard Winters, Jordan Kettleson, Barry Seal, Steve Dickson, Stanley Heard, Carlos Ghigliotti, Don Adams, Jim Wilhite, Theodore Williams Jr., Larry Guerrin, Alan Standorf, Dennis Eisman, Danny Casalaro, Ian Spiro, Charles Wilbourne Miller, Gordon Matteson

Here is a more detailed list. Many died by gunshot or plane crash. Many were ruled suicides.

Sometimes with blogs, it’s hard to know what to believe. Wouldn’t it be great if America had a functional, dedicated mass media that served the public with rigorous, unbiased, investigative journalism?

For your consideration:

Christopher Bollyn, American journalist, beaten and imprisoned for reporting the wrong things.

Did twenty-two British SDI researchers commit suicide? Very strange. Very scary. For all the steps we’ve taken toward fascism in the US, at least we don’t have an Official Secrets Act, as the British do. I first became skeptical of Britain’s seemingly progressive government after reading Marilynne Robinson’s Mother Country.