From a fantastic interview(video at theend of this article) with investigative god Sy Hersh, the most important things to take away are, somewhat paraphrased by me:
1). Iran is not off the table, and certainly not off the agenda as far as the OVP is concerned. Which jives with what I have reported. The question, however, remains focused on just how much pressure Gates will be able to put on the LAI (Let's Attack Iran) gang.
2). Iran is no where near nuclear ready or remotely close to being a threat to the US or its neighbors. This jives with what many experts have said, including the head of homeland Negroponte, as well as the AIEA, and UN inspectors. The CIA's own reporting that this is the case in Iran is also interesting, not because of the report, but because someone felt strongly enough to leak it and did so because the OVP is once again putting pressure on Langley to come up with something more supportive of their policy. That is to say, to "fix the facts around the policy."
3). The Israelis have apparently found a new curve-ball and are funneling his intelligence through DOD into the OVP, bypassing the CIA, again. This jives with what I have reported on the Iranian Directorate and on Shulsky bypassing intelligence communities, again.
4). Israeli intelligence allegedly shows that Iran is roughly a year out from being nuke read. I heard hear something similar last year, but the claims were as dubious then as they are now, which begs the question: who will play the role of SISMI this war around?
5). Never underestimate Dick Cheney. If Sy Hersh says it, we listen. What this actually translates to I don't know, but it is most interesting.
6). We are conducting cross-border "forays" into Iran. The "we" in this scenario is the United States along with Israel, but also includes now Party to Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK). As I reported and as Hersh has previously reported, we are conducting some massive clandestine activities in Iran that are less about HUMIT and more about destabilization. My reports have focused on the MEK, so this added Contras-like element into the game makes things even more interesting. PJAK is closely tied to PKK, a terrorist organization that the US has also supported in the past and is allegedly still supporting.
7). Congress had not been briefed and there has been no finding done. Of course it was most clever to run this operation out of the DOD, that way, Congressional oversight can be avoided. To date, the only person to react to the news of us running terrorist organizations in Iran has been Congressman Kucinich (D-OH). Perhaps the 110th Congress will take an interest?
8). Regime change is the focal point for the OVP in Iran, not WMD or anything else.
9). The White House attempts to smear Hersh even before his article has come out by issuing talking points to the press. Per the usual, the talking points address nothing in the article, but simply use smear tactics to attack the writer, not the substance.
10). And Wolf Blitzer buys into the attack, by citing things that Hersh has said as a US citizen when he has criticized the Bush administration. How this relates to the article or his fine investigative work is anyone's guess, but for Blitzer to use this garbage in order to play "fair and balanced" is frankly quite ugly.
Words to CNN: between the bigotry of Beck, the questionable ethics of Nancy Grace, and the Fox-like questions presented by Blitzer, perhaps the network name should be changed to Fox Light.
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Watch this fantastic interview with Sy Hersh:
http://larisaunplugged.typepad.com/atlargely/2006/11/another_curveba.html
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