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Seymour Hersh reports U.S. Special Forces Operating Deep in Iran

Posted by Jeff from New Yorker

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. Further, Hersh alleges that leading Democrats in Congress have been passively supportive in funding this effort. Via HuffPo, watch video

here.

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U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists?

Posted by Kathy from New Yorker

Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, writes about what could be today's Iran-Contra fiasco. The Bush Administration is running clandestine operations in the Middle East, according to Hersh, using off-the-books funds.

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Seymour Hersh in Seattle: Asks What Kind of People Are We?

Posted by Jeff

I went to see Seymour Hersh at Town Hall in Seattle. He gave a 90 minute lecture with 30 minute Q&A which was energetic, fast-paced – sometimes in its weak points rambling. But overall, it was a powerful overview of the corruption of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Bush and Rumsfeld’s policies of covert torture. An audience member asked at the end – what’s the story? Hersh responded that he guessed the story was Who Are We? What kind of a people sit back as their democracy crumbles at the whim of an idealogue like George W. Bush and do nothing?

Hersh also made some powerful points about Lebanon and Israel:

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