The military stated the Hersh report was untrue. So how could any troops be in danger? Are you saying the military is lying?

ok, ep

If the report was true, then Hersh basically just signed the death warrants of several ground operatives. If the report was false, then Hersh just torpedoed any chances we had to pursue such an operation. Either way, Hersh was probably looking forward to just such an opportunity to "Screw Bush". (edited to comply with site policy) And once again, the mainstream media shows just how much they truly hate Liberty and her defenders.

Funny that you equate an illegal entry into a sovereign nation in advance of an unprovoked attack on that nation as the defense of "Liberty." Hersh was just doing his job. It may be that this was deliberately leaked by the Bush administration, you just don't know. IF the leaker broke the law, his is the scalp you should be going after.

Hersh has certainly put the lives of Iranians in danger by giving the Mullahs another excuse for a purge,but then they would only be doing their jobs.

"Just doing their job" didn't fly for the SS, and it won't fly here. And if we should be going after the scalp of the leaker, then I suggest you pursue a subpoena against Hersh, and don't give us any flak about "freedom of the press."

Apparently you never heard of a trial balloon. Does the thought not occur to you that maybe this, like many leaks, was authorized at the highest levels of our government? If this was not authorized and you want to subpoeana Hersh in an attempt to get at the leaker, I have no problem with that.

"Apparently you never heard of a trial balloon."

Whereas youa re flying a kite.

" Does the thought not occur to you that maybe this, like many leaks, was authorized at the highest levels of our government?"

Who is the message for? The US taxpayer presumes the job is being done,the Mullahs suspect the job is being done,President Bush has said he will not rule out any means to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Why confirm the details of this when you can leave them wondering?


If this was not authorized and you want to subpoeana Hersh in an attempt to get at the leaker, I have no problem with that.

It is quite conceivable that the Iranians leaked to Hersh,to give themselves an excuse for a crackdown in their own country and embarrass the US.
Been done before, the Soviets were brilliant at it.

There's no doubt in my mind that we've been in Iran for quite some time. That said, Hersh was never specific enough to lead anyone to anyone else. Is he a willing dupe of a disinfomation campaign? No, he doesn't have a history of cooperating with the government. If that's the case, he could be part of a classic double-blind leak, where the leaker doesn't know if his info is true or false.

The dictatorial theocratic puppet masters of Iran enjoy less popular support from their countrymen than Saddam did with his. The young are hungry for another life, one where they could dance, drink and socialize like millions of other kids around the world. Could they shelter covert ops? More ridiculous is the thought they never have.

Hersh has a record of being a fave CIA conduit. The leak probably came from there.

A few words about the CIA. It is not the CIA of movies or TV; most of them are analysts who sit around in DC area offices and speak only one language (English). The number of covert case officers is supposed to be south of 100; and most of them are obvious folks who are "governmental affairs liasons" or somesuch in our embassies. Human agents are NOT wanted and a source of embarrassment since the Church committee hearings and later the Iran/Contra affair fiasco (several CIA paid informants were implicated in killing Nuns, archbishops etc in Central America). The career path is Richard Clarke, not Jennifer Garner's ridiculous character in Alias.

The CIA has no way to get information about Iran's nuclear program, any more than it could get info about Iraq pre-war. We have no diplomatic relations with Iran and our ability to subvert or "turn" Iranian intelligence people abroad is non-existent. To find out just WHAT the Iranians are up to requires sending in military people to sneak around and figure out what's going on. The CIA can't do it (and doesn't want to, relying instead on reports from other intelligence services, see: Iraq for how well that worked out).

Hence the leak.

I'm appalled but not surprised that someone would have an issue with actually finding out what the Iranians are up to ("sovereign country"). Yes, the Left has no credibility when it comes to national security. There is no intelligence fairy who will tell us all if we clap really hard. Sigh.

"Funny that you equate an illegal entry into a sovereign nation in advance of an unprovoked attack on that nation as the defense of "Liberty."

Let's see...we have a brutal radical, totalitarian Islamist government that we now know, beyond any doubt, is working toward obtaining a nuclear first-strike capability. Furthermore, they have stated their clear intentions toward Isreal and toward the United States, in no uncertain terms, on numerous occasions. Furthermore, they have made it abundantly clear that they are going to talk out of the side of their neck and make peace gestures to fend us off while they continue to go forward with their program, and they have shown absolutely ZERO interest in getting serious about a diplomatic solution. Furthermore, we have troops in the region that would be within range of those missiles.

By any standards, I would say we're justified in doing whatever it takes to protect ourselves, and we're obligated to do what's necessary to protect our allies and our assets in the region. I wish we could send an ARMY of spies over there, just to keep tabs on those jackals.

Is there any way to prevent the commenting system from screwing up the formatting of our comments? It has stripped out all the line breaks and carriage returns from my message.

Just asking...

Sloan: It's a known issue, and the C-P admins are working on it. In the meantime, don't use any bold tags, please!

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