Sunday, January 16, 2005
Making Our Own Secrets Public
MSNBC - Report: U.S. conducting secret missions in Iran: "The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.
The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.
Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon as saying, The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."
Who needs enemies when we have our own press to tell our secrets? My head spins with this kind of idiocy. I am not sure that it is any surprise to Iran that we are there, but to tell who we are in cahoots with, and what we are trying to do seems counter-productive if you want America to have the edge in the war on terror. Even Anti-Bush journalists should have more sense than to put our secret security operations in jeopardy.
The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.
Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon as saying, The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."
Who needs enemies when we have our own press to tell our secrets? My head spins with this kind of idiocy. I am not sure that it is any surprise to Iran that we are there, but to tell who we are in cahoots with, and what we are trying to do seems counter-productive if you want America to have the edge in the war on terror. Even Anti-Bush journalists should have more sense than to put our secret security operations in jeopardy.
