Brace yourself for the Iran War

[mburbank]

I just read Hersch's piece in the New Yorker and I highly recomend it anyone. I'm now pretty convinced that, absurd as it sounds, the administration intends to make war on Iraq. There's a lot more to the article than merely the statement that we have covert opps teams in Iran scouting target sites. The main point of the article is how covert operations has been removed from the CIA and transferred to the Penatgon, and it's now overseen by Rumsfled. By moving these operations to the Pentagon, they avoid any congressional oversight. It is no longer neccesary to tell anyone outside the west wing or the forth deck of the pentagon (except the operatives themselves) what these teams are doing.

Are you getting this? The CIA wasn't spooky, dangerous and secretive enough for W and company.