Sunni

Drives me nuts how the Bush administration is able to use the CIA without Senate oversight under the notion that they are operating under the military!

Wow:

A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

There’s more on this in the blogosphere. Crooks and Liars has partial transcript of a CNN interview. Think Progress also has more details.

Hersh has a good track record at accurate off-the-record reporting. The article is an in-depth analysis, not a quick off-the-cuff assertion.