A network of CIA-run death squads has been marauding through Afghanistan, pulling children from schools and summarily executing them, a new investigation by The Intercept has found. The story, by Andrew Quilty, is centered in Wardak Province, just south of Kabul, and uncovers a series of previously unreported massacres carried out by joint American and Afghan forces. It appears that the slaughter may have been ratcheted up as leverage to reach a peace deal with the Taliban. Democrats routinely speak loudly about the need for the “global war on terror” to be waged within the four corners of the law, and there’s simply no way that this was. One of the most outspoken proponents of bringing a fine legal eye to war has been Avril Haines, who will be Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence. She’ll have the authority and the ability to discover who in the CIA was involved in these operations, and bring them to justice.
Two days of silence...A pandemic relief deal
In some ways, sitting and listening to the staccato voices seeking a wider band and wisdom perhaps.
The horror of My Lai was compounded by the cover up (Seymour Hersh). The silence with the Wardak story is deafening.