An update on Iran

[laxfan25]

One of the people I am most thankful for in the world of journalism is Seymour "Sy" Hersh. He has impeccable connections in the corridors of power, as well as excellent information in the intelligence community.
Here is a link to a free copy of next week's issue of the New Yorker, with Hersh's article on "Preparing the Battlefield". Enjoy.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008 ... fact_hersh

[Jac Coyne]

Bwahahaha. Hersh basically wrote the same article over two years ago postulating the same nonsense.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/0 ... 417fa_fact

Impeccable indeed.

[cecilc]

Whatever "plans" the US has in regards to Iran's nuclear capability would never be "operative" .....

Why ?

Because the US knows that Israel would be the first off the ground to take out any nuclear installation in Iran that Israel felt was a direct threat to their safety/existence. And I'd bet that Israeli intelligence knows a whole lot more about what's going on in Iran than we do. The Israelis did the same thing with Iraq back in 1981 in taking out a French-built reactor near Baghdad .... and I was actually living in Egypt at the time ....

And it's not like Ahmadinejad hasn't made his feelings about Israel known ....

[Zeuslax]

I haven't read the article, but there is a bigger issue at play here. It's not about our plans or even us laying ground work for operations in Iran (or other countries for that matter). It's about the ability of the military and our covert services to be able to conduct operations without any oversight of Congress. The argument that this is the way it's always been or this is the way we've had to operate in the past doesn't hold any water. See Laos, Cambodia, USSR, Afganistan, Pakistan, etc........ Representatives on both sides of the isle are very confused and baffled about what to do. The white house has side-stepped the law (example # 8,354,786) and created rules of covert operations without boundaries or even the hint of oversight. Very, very, very dangerous. The soldiers on the ground aren't the problem. They just take orders.