June 30th 2008
Seymour Hersh Blows Cover On Iran Intelligence Program
S
eymour Hersh, who ever since Vietnam has fathered stories supportive of whatever enemy America is fighting, has done it again, blowing the cover on a Presidential Finding in support of new, aggressive efforts to gather intelligence on and destabilize Iran’s ruling Islamo-oligarchs.
The New Yorker story leads off with:
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Hersh admits that such Presidential Findings are “highly classified,” with distribution limited to “Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committees - the so-called Gang of Eight.” He does not, of course, hint at his source for the treasonous leaking of the document.
Hersh’s intent is clear: To do all he can to demonize Bush, even at the risk of increasing the chances that the truly awful people who rule Iran may be able to thwart (i.e., torture, kill) the truly valiant Iranians who are risking all in the name of that quaint concept called freedom - particularly the Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups Hersh specifically called out. Proof? Look no further than this:
United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. (emphasis added)
“The President’s war on terror?” The whole thing - Beirut, Khobar, the African embassies, the Cole, 9/11, Bali - is just the President’s war on terror to Hersh and his ilk, who, in their hatred of any American government that chooses war, believe no external threat really involves us, and that there’s no one out to harm us but our president.
Hersh will continue to live his comfortable, coddled life, wooing his fellow traveler sources, while in Iran the mad Mullahs and Mah - I’m in the - moud - for counterintelligence Ahmadinejad (rhymes with “Hersh? There’s a Jew who’d not all bad!”) will step up their efforts to seek out and exterminate any Ahwazi Arab, Baluchi or other groups or individuals who pose a threat to their jihadist ambitions.
Sedition, thy name is Seymour Hersh.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Comments
June 30th, 2008 at 11:45 am
It’s called journalism. It’s what is supposed to protect us from wars that we never asked for.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Caution! Beware of jerking knee! Care to list for me, Tim, all the wars stopped by crusading journalists? The War of 1812? The Civil War? The Spanish American War? Ah - that’s one unwanted war journalism actually got us into, not out of.
I prefer the checks and balances between Congress and the president as a protection from unwanted wars because there, at least, the bias is worn externally for all to see and consider.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
The point of the article is not to demonize the President but to portray his administration as totally incompetent.Still we’re dealing with Hersh. This is a guy who cherry picks his stories, if he’s not outright lying.We only have his word that he saw classified documents. That’s not enough to believe that he actually did.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Check this out. Could this be a description of the same efforts that Hersh is describing?