Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sy Hersh Has The Goods On Iran

Despite the claims to the contrary from the Bush Adminstration, it appears that the escalation in the Middle East is ramping up yet again. Many denials have been issued that plans to attack Iran are in the works but Sy Hersh has found the proof it exists.

Sy Hersh with Wolf Blitzer on CNN:



In a nutshell, the article from The New Yorker says:

Hersh says the U.S. has been "pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight" for covert operations in the Middle East where it wants to "stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence." Hersh says these funds have ended up in the hands of "three Sunni jihadist groups" who are "connected to al Qaeda" but "want to take on Hezbollah."

Hersh summed up his scoop in stark terms: "We are simply in a situation where this president is really taking his notion of executive privilege to the absolute limit here, running covert operations, using money that was not authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did 9/11."