This Week in WTF: There is no limit to Dick Cheney's EvilNess

Dick Cheney had a secret assassination squad that would go kill people deemed a threat. It was not funded by the miltary and not backed by Congress; therefore, it was illegal.

This story came out a couple of weeks ago, and I read about it on Wonkette, but I forgot to pass it on. Seymour Hersh, the hilarious and intrepid-ish reporter who broke the story back at University of Minnesota in mid-march, was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today, talking about this story and other Thing He Knows About, including Syria -- he's got an article titled "Syria Calling" in the New Yorker.

Long and short of it: Cheney was in charge of "the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office..." is what Hersh said on the 11th at UMinn.

JSOC, as summed up by Hersh has 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..."

Fresh Air asked the Obama administration about JSOC and they said that all military operations are funded by Congress and no one reports exclusively to the office of the Vice President.

So, that's that with that! Everything's better! Ha ha yah right---

What's quite, quite sad is that the world has been indellibly changed by the WTFishness of the Bush the Second Years in office and I'm not sure that that will ever change, despite campaign slogan and whatnot.

And now that I've posted these really mature pics of Cheney, his shadow government (as described in the Fresh Air interview with Hersh) will flag me (if they haven't already, they're not really doing their job well) and I will be surveilled. I hope my surveillor doesn't have a thing for redheads; he'll get all distracted by my beauty and forget to spy on me while I blog about how cute my dogs are or poems, or post vegetarian recipes.

Round Table 3-Petraeus Goes to Washington

So, now that we've settled the oh-so-impt issue re Kayne and 50, it's time to move on to General Petraeus's testimony. If only our country were as riveted and vetsed as the Iraqis, who stayed up very late in the evening to watch or listen. Millions upon millions, actually.

And, as noted int he previous email, we can't even garner over a million hits on it. Pathetic.

Anyway, most important part of the testimony: I thought Obama's silk blue tie was really sharp. It brings out his beautiful black (or not black enough or whatever) skin because of the contrast.

I thought John Kerry had some v.g. questions for the General. He wasn't even that loquacious, for himself. It's like he began to relax and let loose, for him, in his career as a Senator since he lost in 2004. This of course makes him a better candidate now than then. Paradox.

Continuing on, overall I'd have to say this little gem from Tuesday's testimony was my overall 100% favorite part of both days.



Read more here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/11/petraeus-i-dont-know-_n_63982.html

And if you juxtapose it, as I will right now, with these little nuggets of history:



And this from August 2002



It just makes me want to go to a congressional hearing and wear pink and scream like an absolute loony so I can be fodder for YouTube and blog postings.



But really, I thought the Code Pink Ladies were kind of annoying. Nevertheless, I like that they were there. I like rabble rousers.

Rep Ike Skelton, though, I have one word for you : curmudgeon