Seymour Hershalleges secret ‘assassination wing’ � - Blogs from CNN.com

In an interview on CNN's The Situation Room, Seymour Hersh said the group — called the Joint Special Operations Command — reported to Vice President Dick Cheney and was delegated authority to assassinate individuals based on their own intelligence.

'The idea that we have a unit that goes around and without reporting to Congress — Congress knows very little about this group, can't get hearings, can't get even classified hearings on it…goes around and has authority from the president to go into a country without telling the CIA station chief or the ambassador and whack someone, I am sorry Wolf, yes I have a problem with that,' Hersh said in the interview with Wolf Blitzer."

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