The web logs have picked this story up:
http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/006176.php
Pakistan Turns States Evidence
by Trent Telenko on January 17, 2005 04:05 AM
I don't as a rule trust Seymour Hersh's stories on the US Military, but I have seen hints here and there supporting his story about American Special Forces teams hunting for nuclear sites in Iran. While American military strategic reconnaissance is a necessary preparatory step for an invasion of Iran, this report does not necessarily mean we are going to invade. The intelligence gathered could be used for any of a number of things short of invasion ranging from diplomacy through Special Forces "Direct Action" missions, to one off precision air-strikes to a full blown air campaigns.
The key fact here isn't the "sexy angle" of American Special Forces being used to avoid Congressional Intelligence Committee oversight, or that Hersh is shilling for his sources on the CIA bureaucracy and the Congressional Intelligence Committee staffs. It is that Pakistan has turned "States Evidence" on the Iranian nuclear program.
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That is a good point you make about the Pakistanis telling what they know about the nuclear program.