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

[John W.]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

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


Ummm....that's only four, ain't it?  :-)




> Jenifer Cartwright wrote:


>  Good show today. Hersh is always worth checking out.
>>
>>  --Jenifer
>>
>>
>>    --- On *Mon, 6/30/08, Democracy Now! /<outreach at democracynow.org>/*
>>    wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>        Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in
>> Secret
>>        Operations Against Iran//Affirmative Action on Ballot in Three
>> States: A
>>        Debate//Police, Firefighters, Utility Workers Among Hundreds
>> Trained as
>>        "Terrorism Liaison Officers"
>>
>>        TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:
>>
>>        * Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation
>> in Secret
>>        Operations Against Iran *
>>
>>        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.
>>
>>        Listen/Watch/Read
>>         www.democracynow.org <http://www.democracynow.org>
>
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