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Seymour Hersh and his war against the US
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02/07/2008 17:41:37
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Iran didn't already know their nuclear sites were being spied on? That is old, old news.

UPDATE: No, I didn't read the CNN article about Hersh's article, I read Hersh's article.

>I was referring to the CNN article John posted at the start of this thread - did you read it? It was from an interview with Hersh:
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>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/us.iran/index.html
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>The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.
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>An Iranian flag flies outside the building containing the reactor of Bushehr nuclear power plant, south of Tehran.
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>White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.
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>Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents...
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>>What was "put out there in the public arena"? Please cite one single future operation that was mentioned in the article.
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>>>But now they can expect someone to be waiting for them... Doesn't matter now, once it was put out there in the public arena, it was cancelled.
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>>>>>>Like Mike, I haven't read the article, only heard/saw a couple of summaries. But if the administration is doing things that are meant to lead to war in Iran, I want to know, I want Congress to know, I want the world to know.
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>>>>>>I'll look for the article this evening.
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>>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>>That's all well in and good if you're talking about a proposed arms deal with Saudi Arabia. But certain kinds of activity being exposed in this fashion mean good people being put at great risk.
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>>>>Aren't they put at great risk first by those who sent them to do whatever clandestine (and probably illegal) thing they were doing?
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