[Peace-discuss] DN!: Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Note that the "Congress" who agreed to the administration's request to fund 
major escalation in secret operations against Iran was in fact the Democratic 
party leadership -- specifically the "Gang of Eight": Senate Majority Leader 
Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman 
John D. Rockefeller IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre 
Reyes.  --CGE


Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Good show today. Hersh is always worth checking out.
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>  --Jenifer
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>     --- On *Mon, 6/30/08, Democracy Now! /<outreach at democracynow.org>/*
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>         Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in Secret
>         Operations Against Iran//Affirmative Action on Ballot in Three States: A
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>         TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:
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>         * Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in Secret
>         Operations Against Iran *
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>         Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to
>         fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at
>         destabilizing Iran¹s leadership, according to a new article by veteran
>         investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine. The
>         operations were set out in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed
>         by Bush which, by law, must be made known to Democratic and Republican
>         leaders. The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for
>         activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran¹s
>         nuclear program. Hersh joins us from Washington DC.
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