There has been a lot happening around Seymour Hersh lately. First, he posted his new article in the New Yorker. In it, he says that the DoD now basically has all the power it wants to perform covert ops within Iran, without telling the Congress or the President anything about it. Of course, the DoD has a fierce rebuttal. Ari Berman also had some very interesting insights which basically come down to “Hersh was right, the DoD wrong”.

On his appearance yesterday on the Daily Show (watch from here), Hersh states that the things that happened in Iraq are happening now in Iran, namely WMD, failed diplomacy by the Europeans, Security Council resolutions, etc etc. Though he says they have learned not to go in with ground forces and do nation building. Rather they will try to topple the regime using covert ops and air superiority. Watch Iran in 2005!

Hersh also appears on Democracy Now! Also see the previous post we had about Hersh.