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Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden
TAGS: DevGru Dick Cheney JSOC marc ambinder osama bin laden Seal Team Six sy hersh
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By: Mark Hemingway 05/02/11 10:28 AM
It's been reported that bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team Six, officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group or DevGru. Marc Ambinder has a good report that fills in some of the particulars:
DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. Thats the code.
Under Bush, JSOC was routinely smeared by the left and placed at the center of many Bush/Cheney conspiracy theories. Specifically, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney's personal assassination squad:
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: 'Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden | Mark Hemingway | Beltway Confidential | San Francisco Examiner
'Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden | Mark Hemingway | Beltway Confidential | San Francisco Examiner
They all got it wrong and every day Bush is looking better
Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden
TAGS: DevGru Dick Cheney JSOC marc ambinder osama bin laden Seal Team Six sy hersh
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By: Mark Hemingway 05/02/11 10:28 AM
It's been reported that bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team Six, officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group or DevGru. Marc Ambinder has a good report that fills in some of the particulars:
DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. Thats the code.
Under Bush, JSOC was routinely smeared by the left and placed at the center of many Bush/Cheney conspiracy theories. Specifically, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney's personal assassination squad:
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: 'Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden | Mark Hemingway | Beltway Confidential | San Francisco Examiner
'Cheney's assasination squad' just killed bin Laden | Mark Hemingway | Beltway Confidential | San Francisco Examiner