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

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Yeah, four more involved... but the strange and awful thing here is that it would have been "illegal" for these guys to squeal about those secret operations. Same deal in effect made it "illegal" for Durbin et al to divulge that they knew the "evidence" given for justification for attacking Iraq was bogus BEFORE the attack was carried out. Something is seriously amiss here (other than the players invovled).
 --Jenifer  

--- On Mon, 6/30/08, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] DN!: Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request...
To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
Cc: jencart13 at yahoo.com, "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana..net>
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 8:49 PM




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
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       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.

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