You can argue with Elder about this, but the seal team that Obama used is the same team that Cheney apparently had control over. This team, at one point called seal team 6 ****that is not what they are called now***** is outside the normal military chain of command. I had someone say that they report directly to the president, Elder said they were outside the normal chain but did not report to the President, either way, whichever is true, they are the same guys, not blackwater. Of course when they retire from the team which is not 6, they could probably get pretty good jobs at the company that is no longer named blackwater.
From the link in the original aricle sited in this post:
Bin Laden was ended by SEAL Team Six, which is part of the Joint Special Operations Command. The hard Left
hates the JSOC.
New York Times journalist Seymour Hersh said they were “very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state, without any legal authority for it.” He alleged “they do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office… it’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. 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.”
This is, of course, exactly what SEAL Team Six just did in Pakistan. Hersh was not trying to advertise their virtues. He wanted to shut them down, and a
very large portion of the Left whole-heartedly agreed. The
New York Times, America’s paper of record, clearly supported Hersh in this, or they would not have published his work. Seymour Hersh wasn’t just a fringe whacko scribbling in the dark corners of the
Daily Kos. As Jim Treacher of
The Daily Caller reminds us, Hersh’s work was presented and promoted on Stephen Colbert’s popular Comedy Central program.
