“If true, these operations violate longstanding U.S. policy regarding covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional oversight," Kucinich writes. "Hersh is within a year or more of releasing a book that is said to include evidence of this allegation. However, we cannot wait a year or more to establish the truth.”

Kucinich's full letter is available at Raw Story.

In my morning post, I used this assassination squad to question Cheney's sanity. Why would you do this -- along with the torture and illegal detentions -- if you didn't think it was absolutely necessary? How paranoid would you have to be?

Here's hoping Kucinich's investigation gets rolling. We need to know just how lunatic our government has been for the past 8 years.