Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Counties, Including in Latin America
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir earlier this month when he said the Bush administration ran an "Executive assassination ring" That reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. "Under President Bush's authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving," Hersh said. Seymour Hersh joins us to explain. Ref. Source 4
Obama Has Taken a 'Profoundly Troubling' Position on Assassinations, ACLU
By David Edwards
"The administration has taken the position that it has the authority -- not just in traditional war zones like Afghanistan, but far away from traditional war zones in places like Somalia or Yemen -- to use lethal force against anyone whom the administration concludes is an enemy of the United States." Ref. Source 2
Obama's "Kill-at-Will" Strategy
By Glen Ford
Obama's masquerade as a purveyor of U.S. "soft power" is over. Thinly cloaked as NATO, the Americans displayed their ability to 'kill-at-will' with the attack on Gaddafi's residence, the same weekend that bin Laden was erased." The intended audience includes all who would resist U.S. Empire. Ref. Source 7
Obama's secret kill list - the disposition matrix: Op-Ed:
The disposition matrix is a complex grid of suspected terrorists to be traced then targeted in drone strikes or captured and interrogated. And the British government appears to be colluding in it or people around the world, even though it's aimed at them. Ref. Source 6