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Death-squad allegations resurface on CNN

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviews investigative reporter Seymour Hersh about his claim that  former Vice President Dick Cheney’s office supervised an assassination team with a hit list of suspected terrorists.MinnPost’s Eric Black had an audio recorder

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviews investigative reporter Seymour Hersh about his claim that  former Vice President Dick Cheney’s office supervised an assassination team with a hit list of suspected terrorists.

MinnPost’s Eric Black had an audio recorder running in the audience when Hersh first mentioned his reporting on this group during a public symposium at the University of Minnesota. Black writes, “Two high-ranking former aides first denied Dick Cheney’s involvement in a death squad, then proceed to confirm almost all claims of it.”

During the first minute of the interview, Blitzer and Hersh revisit what was said in that night at the U of M with audio credit given to MinnPost.

Read more about Hersh’s CNN interview and MinnPost’s coverage of his death-squad claim.