Bush e Cheney comandavam "círculo de assassinatos" *
A afirmação-título é de um dos maiores jornalistas investigativos do país, o veterano Seymour Hersh, da revista New Yorker, e foi feita durante palestra na Universidade de Minnesota no dia 10 do mês passado Hersh afirma que depois de 11 de Setembro uma divisão da comunidade de operações especiais do governo norte-americano passou a operar o que ele chama de "essencialmente um círculo de assassinatos", então sob o comando dos republicanos Dick Cheney e George W. Bush.
Chamada Joint Special Operations Command, ou JSOC, é independente e se reportava diretamente ao escritório do vice-presidente de então. "Não passava pelo comando conjunto das Forças Armadas ou por Gates", diz Hersh, referindo-se ao secretário de Defesa, que continua no cargo sob Barack Obama. Não passava pelo Congresso, também.
Segundo o jornalista, o almirante William H. McRaven mandou recentemente que a operação parasse, por conta do alto número de mortes "colaterais". "Sob a autoridade do [ex-] presidente Bush, eles têm ido a países, sem falar com os embaixadores ou com o chefe local da CIA, encontrado as pessoas listadas, as executado e partido. Isso vem acontecendo, em nome de todos nós."
Hersh diz ainda que a CIA, a agência de inteligência norte-americana, espionou cidadãos norte-americanos nos EUA. Ambas as práticas --os assassinatos e a espionagem doméstica-- são proibidas por lei nos EUA. Um porta-voz da CIA negou as espionagens. Um ex-assessor de Segurança Nacional de Cheney, John Hannah, confirmou que havia uma lista de pessoas que, "em guerra" e sob certas condições, poderiam ser mortas.
Seymour Hersh, 71, é mais conhecido por ter revelado o Massacre de My Lai, em 1969, durante a Guerra do Vietnã, e ter detalhado os abusos ocorridos na Prisão de Abu Ghraib, em 2004, durante a Guerra do Iraque. Em entrevista posterior, ele confirmou as informações da palestra e disse que escreve um livro a respeito. Estranhamente, a grande mídia norte-americana vem evitando tocar no assunto...
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Os trechos principais do que ele diz, em inglês:
"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. That does happen.
"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as 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. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.
"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.
"It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized."In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.
"I’ve had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee.?’
"But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”
* Extraído do blog de Sérgio Dávila.
Chamada Joint Special Operations Command, ou JSOC, é independente e se reportava diretamente ao escritório do vice-presidente de então. "Não passava pelo comando conjunto das Forças Armadas ou por Gates", diz Hersh, referindo-se ao secretário de Defesa, que continua no cargo sob Barack Obama. Não passava pelo Congresso, também.
Segundo o jornalista, o almirante William H. McRaven mandou recentemente que a operação parasse, por conta do alto número de mortes "colaterais". "Sob a autoridade do [ex-] presidente Bush, eles têm ido a países, sem falar com os embaixadores ou com o chefe local da CIA, encontrado as pessoas listadas, as executado e partido. Isso vem acontecendo, em nome de todos nós."
Hersh diz ainda que a CIA, a agência de inteligência norte-americana, espionou cidadãos norte-americanos nos EUA. Ambas as práticas --os assassinatos e a espionagem doméstica-- são proibidas por lei nos EUA. Um porta-voz da CIA negou as espionagens. Um ex-assessor de Segurança Nacional de Cheney, John Hannah, confirmou que havia uma lista de pessoas que, "em guerra" e sob certas condições, poderiam ser mortas.
Seymour Hersh, 71, é mais conhecido por ter revelado o Massacre de My Lai, em 1969, durante a Guerra do Vietnã, e ter detalhado os abusos ocorridos na Prisão de Abu Ghraib, em 2004, durante a Guerra do Iraque. Em entrevista posterior, ele confirmou as informações da palestra e disse que escreve um livro a respeito. Estranhamente, a grande mídia norte-americana vem evitando tocar no assunto...
*
Os trechos principais do que ele diz, em inglês:
"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. That does happen.
"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as 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. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.
"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.
"It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized."In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.
"I’ve had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee.?’
"But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”
* Extraído do blog de Sérgio Dávila.
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