Wasn't there a X-force series which cyclops put together a black ops team lead by wolverine that went around assassinating/wiping out threats deemed too dangerous/ problematic to let live so they could be rid of the problem without tarnishing the image of the X-Men being good guys or whatever? Granted the bad guys were terrorist, anti-mutant hate groups, and maybe some super villains but I do find it funny that Scott basically had a unaccountable strike team on payroll for destroying any problems that would be too messy for the regular team and is "totally a good guy guys".
I could be totally remembering this wrong.
During Messiah Complex, Cyclops formed a team of Wolverine, Wolfsbane, Warpath, X23, the skunk chick from Starjammers, and Caliban to hunt down Cable, who had Baby Hope and had pretty much a ton of people (Scott included) hunting for him and the baby.
After Messiah Complex, Logan expected the team to disband but Scott demanded they stay together and hunt anti-mutant humans for Scott; with the group's continued existence being kept a secret from the rest of the X-Men. Wolverine reluctantly agreed and was joined by Angel (who through contrivance got his Archangel powers back) and Elixer (a young underage healer mutant who Wolfsbane fucked when she was his teacher), who replaced skunk alien girl and Caliban (the later of which died in Messiah Complex).
Wolverine was against the team and the use of younger mutants like Wolfsbane and Elixer and Warpath and X23 on the team. To make their mission more palatable, Marvel resurrected all the major dead anti-mutant humans as techno organic zombies and enhanced other living anti-mutant human bigots with the same tech, while having the Black Queen Selene steal the tech for her own scheming purpose (which was a rip-off of Blackest Night with all sorts of dead mutants coming back as Selene's slaves). They also fought the Dark Avengers during the Utopia arc. But a running theme was Wolverine seeing the young mutants become killers and not liking it one bit, which culminated in the events of Schism and Logan restarting the X-Men school. Along with Beast finding out about the team and being so horrified that he rage-quit the X-Men and rejoined the Avengers.
This version of X-Force dissolved after Second Coming when everyone found out about it and was horrified, though Wolverine secretly kept the team going behind Scott's back but with only adults: Logan, Archangel, Psylockes, Fantomax, and Deadpool. The second X-Force book (Uncanny X-Force) kept the team a secret for a bit thoough Logan eventually revealed to the X-Men who went with him to restart the school tht he had kept X-Force going. This team was haunted by Apocalypse: after a child clone of Apocalypse was created, killed, and then hidden away by Fantomex who resurrected the clone child and "raised him right" in a VR tube", the subplot of Archangel's metal wings having a mind of their own was resurrected as it was revealed that it contained a back up of Apocalypse's mind and it took over Archangel and nuked an entire city in the midwest that was covered up by the X-Men and Archangel mindwiped to kill the evil personality that controlled him. The final arc dealt with Sabretooth engaging in a plot with Wolverine's evil gay son Dakan to turn the Apocalypse clone over to Shadow King to use as a meat puppet, with the scheme designed by Sabretooth to force Wolverine to murder his evil son for Sabretooth's amusement. It continued the theme though of the strain of such actions had on the X-Men, Psylockes in particular and set Deadpool up as a sort of voice of morality as he was the only one who opposed the murder of the Apocalypse Clone and later became the child's parental unit when Fantomax was killed by Dakan and his goons.
After this, Rick Remender (writer of Uncanny X-Force) moved to Uncanny Avengers and continued his plotline with a dangler from his UXF run (brainwashed Archangel knocking up one of his Horsemen with twins who became villains in UA) while X-Force got split into two books: one featuring Cable and a random roster (Cable and X-Force) who were framed for mass murder by a woman who's daughter was killed by Magneto at the end of the Morrison X-Men run, and another Uncanny X-Force book that had a female centric cast with Psylockes, Storm, Spiral, Puck, and Bishop (who's villainy in Messsiah Complex was retconned as Demon Bear possession). The two books flopped saleswise and they crossed over for a crossover ending that wrapped up C&X's storylines.
After that there was a nostalgia X-Force book dealing with adult Cable's death that lasted ten issues and the current X-Force book which is "X-Men CIA" with Beast doing all sorts of morally ambiguous shit with Sage, Wolverine, Kid Omega, Jean Grey, and Black Tom Cassidy and is notably for featuring a major storyline where Xavier is assassinated that should have run in the main X-Men book but was put in X-Force to force people to buy X-Force.
