Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist specializing in military and security issues. Famous for exposing the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam and the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine.I listened to an interview with him on NPR - Fresh Air with Terry Gross - this past week. I thought I'd heard more about the interview elsewhere in the newspapers or on the net. But, I've seen and heard nothing. Strange. What was he talking about? Covert US action in Iran. That's I R A N not Iraq. A "secret" CIA-military potentially "lethal" operation. I found what he said quite disturbing. How does he know so much about it? Is what he is reporting potentially damaging to what, if anything, we are doing over there to stop the development of nuclear weapons?
I did an earlier posting about Bush having only 6 months in office and wanting to attack Iran. That is precisely what Hersh is talking about now. In his New Yorker article "Preparing the Battlefield", he says that the Congressional "leadership" (8 senior politicians) approved $400 million for "destabilizing" actions to be conducted by (US) the Joint Special Operations Command.
Drivers, I strongly urge you to become more enlightened about what is going on. Follow this link to read the article http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh/?yrail and go the the NPR site to hear more http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92151813 The credit for the Hersh photo is http://www.washprofile.org/en/node/4804 For more on Hersh's background go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh
