Do you remember the super-secret commando force at the 2005 inauguration?

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No, I didn't remember either -- until the latest Sy Hersh revelations about Cheney "executive assassination ring" got me googling a bit on the Joint Special Operations Command and I ran across this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/national/nationalspecial3/23code.html?ei=5088&en=26de1cda74d6a61a&ex=1264222800&pagewanted=print&position=

January 23, 2005
Commandos Get Duty on U.S. Soil
By ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - Somewhere in the shadows of the White House and the Capitol this week, a small group of super-secret commandos stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action to protect the presidency, a task that has never been fully revealed before. . . .

These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time this week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World," (Steerforth Press). The book was written by William M. Arkin, a former intelligence analyst for the Army.

The precise number of these Special Operations forces in Washington this week is highly classified, but military officials say the number is very small. The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army unit Delta Force. . . .

The commandos here this week were the same type of Special Operations forces who are hunting top insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But under the top-secret military plan, they are also conducting counterterrorism missions in support of civilian agencies in the United States. . . . One of the officials said the units operated in the United States under "special authority" from either the president or the secretary of defense.