Hersh: Iran, Pentagon, CIA
Democracy Now : Seymour Hersh Interview
"So, now Rumsfeld has won a major bureaucratic fight. He is now operating, as you said in the intro, in up to ten countries. He is sending in covert teams. That is -- the word they use inside is “wiped clean.” The soldiers are wiped clean. Their I.D.’s are totally non-American and non-military. They're going in to make contact with groups inside various countries, set up operations, trying to do some war games, some terrorism themselves. You have to -- you run with the bad boys to find the bad boys is the way somebody said to me. In other words, look like bad boys to attract other bad boys so we find out who they are. We can't find the terrorists too often. This is one way of getting at them. And we're going to be doing that with military people. We're not going to be telling the American ambassador in the country. We’re not going to be telling the C.I.A. station chief. It's going to be done by Rummy and his people. That's a huge shift, an unprecedented shift, in the last 60 years."
I have my doubts about whether the U.S. will take large-scale military action against Iran. But the recent rift between the White House and the CIA is undeniable. The White House is now using the Pentagon as its own private military force.
Posted by Eric on January 18, 2005 12:48 PM
