Two Months Later, Hersh and the New Yorker Strain to Catch Up With CounterPunch

Published: July 1, 2008, 10:11 am

Re-Breaking the NewsTwo Months Later, Hersh and the New Yorker Strain to Catch Up With CounterPunch By ALEXANDER COCKBURNLate last week the New Yorker released a 6,000 word story by Seymour Hersh under the vague title, "Preparing the Battlefield". The lead paragraph ran as follows: "Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program."Beyond the assertion in the second paragraph that secret ops against Iran by US military and CIA are being "significantly expanded",

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