{"id":3247,"date":"2008-07-01T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2010-03-01T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:29:42","slug":"democracy-now-seymour-hersh-on-covert-operations-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Democracy NOW!: Seymour Hersh On Covert Operations In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"flashcontainer760\">\n<\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.politube.org\/javascripts\/swfobject.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\tvar so = new SWFObject('http:\/\/www.politube.org\/mediaplayer.swf','player','450','350','8');\n\t\tso.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\n\t\tso.addVariable('file','http:\/\/www.politube.org\/flv\/media_760.flv');\n                so.addVariable('image', 'http:\/\/www.politube.org\/thumb\/760');\n                so.addVariable('showdigits', \"true\");\n                so.addVariable('callback', 'http:\/\/www.politube.org\/flv_callback\/760' );\n\t\tso.addVariable('lightcolor','0x557722');\n\t\tso.addVariable('searchbar','false');\n\t\tso.addVariable(\"width\",\"450\");\n\t\tso.addVariable(\"height\",\"350\");\n\t\tso.write('flashcontainer760');\n\t<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran\u2019s 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 Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Hersh joins DemocracyNow from Washington DC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2008\/6\/30\/hersh_congress_agreed_to_bush_request\">DemocracyNow!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>video embed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politube.org\/show\/760\">politube.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seymour M. Hersh: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/04\/17\/060417fa_fact?printable=true\">THE IRAN PLANS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Alexander Cockburn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cockburn07012008.html\">Two Months Later, Hersh and the New Yorker Strain to Catch Up With CounterPunch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran\u2019s leadership, according to a new article by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Qn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12795,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}