Dennis Kucinich has written a letter to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform urging the committee to investigate a credible allegation by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that the George W. Bush Administration planned and committed illegal assassinations in foreign countries.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Kucinich’s letter quotes Hersh as saying, “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. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently.”
According to Hersh these assassination squads “reported directly to (Vice President) Cheney … Congress has no oversight of it.”
Kucinich urges congressional investigation, because, “If true, these operations violate long-standing U.S. policy regarding covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional oversight. Current statute governing covert action (50 U.S.C. 413b) requires a presidential finding and notification to the appropriate congressional committees. Additionally, Executive Order 12333 clearly states that ‘[n]o person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in or conspire to engage in assassination.’”
Did Dennis get this info through some sort of special message from the aliens? This guy’s nuttier than a squirrel turd.
Congress needs to focus on the problems we face today. If there are sufficient, credible facts to justify an investigation, it should be done by professional law enforcement personnel, not a bunch of publicity crazed clowns in Congress.
Dennis Kucinich is a professional politician who has an innate need to be important. Dennis, the last time I checked your area had the highest number of foreclosures in the nation on average. Maybe you should start to worry more about the people who pays your salary. Oh, that’s right, I forgot, that wouldn’t keep you in the national spotlight. Helping the voters who stupidly put you in office should be your first priority, sadly it isn’t. Beam him up Scotty.
I applaud Representative Kucinich for again being at the forefront to defend the rule of law and transparency in government.
Assassination is illegal and if Cheney or anyone else in the U.S. government authorized such extrajudicial killings this should be exposed and those responsible brought to justice.
Those who engage in extrajudicial killings are terrorists and provoke responses in kind.
Bravo to Representative Kucinich for following up on this!