The key word is secret....they are doing it in broad daylight!!!
Amazing how this keeps happening!
Just when we start to believe that dictators who openly call for our destruction actually mean it, low and behold--some report comes out about a (always unamed) "government official" who has found that the threat is not true at all, and that our leaders are plotting to harm the harmless.
And always by some embittered, sullen lefty reporter.
Do we see a pattern here?
I have no problem with them saying this but to state this without also adding "... but we do not have boots on the ground to determine what is being developed in large underground facilities so we simply do not know what Iraq is doing in this regard ...
I stopped readin at Seymore Hirsch.
I was just listening to a program about the first Iraqi war. The CIA told the military that their vehicles could not cross the sand. SpecOps went in and took some samples and said no problem, which there wasn't. So much for the CIA and its agenda.
oh, we nuked their nuclear facilities before the elections so that Republicans would win, didn't we?
didn't the CIA say the sme thing about nort korea?
No need to read any further.
The CIA couldnt find their butt-crack with both hands and a flashlight.
We could save millions if we just turned Langley into a housing development.
Putin works for Rasputin...
Hersh is an leftist idiot. I'd take this one with a grain of salt.
There is no one within the orbit of Mars who does not understand that Iran is ruthlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with full intent to use them.
Not the people writing this article, not the people sourced for it, not the Iranians themselves, not those flacking for them in China and Russia, not those finding excuses in the international agencies, not those waiting and seeing with palms outstretched in Europe, not Hillary, not Bill, nobody within the orbit of Mars thinks they are risking nuclear war over more expensive electricity.
Everyone is just more interested in seeing the US and specifically Republicans and specifically Bush, as well as the Israelis half the human race loves to hate, taken down a peg and humiliated. And if a few million innocent people have to die, well then, that's just a bonus.
They all know *exactly* what they are doing and they are doing it anyway.
nothing to see here - move along
If this article is true, then the CIA has changed their tune: Iran continued to vigorously pursue indigenous programs to produce WMD-nuclear, chemical, and biological-and their delivery systems as well as ACW. To this end, Iran continued to seek foreign materials, training, equipment, and know-how. During the reporting period, Iran still focused particularly on entities in Russia, China, North Korea, and Europe.
Nuclear. The United States remains convinced that Tehran has been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program, in violation of its obligations as a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). To bolster its efforts to establish domestic nuclear fuel-cycle capabilities, Iran sought technology that can support fissile material production for a nuclear weapons program.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/721_reports/jan_jun2003.htm#iran
What a bunch of crap!When are we going to learn that when your enemy tells you he is going to kill you,you take it seriously and plan accordingly.
If Iran says it is building nuclear weapons and is going to use them to attack Israel and the United States you better take that to the bank. I'm tired of the damn Ostrich mentality that brought us 911.
Why else would Iran utilize highly-enriched uranium if not for bombs? It is not needed for electricity, and is a very difficult and expensive process.
If anyone believes that, I have a bridge I want to sell them in Brooklyn.
GGGGEEEEEZZZZZ!!!! Why don't we just turn over our intelligence efforts to the Russian KGB. More quality, less money.