Here we go again? Sy Hersh’s latest in The New Yorker is worth a read.
THE NEXT ACT by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
The Administration’s planning for a military attack on Iran was made far more complicated earlier this fall by a highly classified draft assessment by the C.I.A. challenging the White House’s assumptions about how close Iran might be to building a nuclear bomb. The C.I.A. found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency. (The C.I.A. declined to comment on this story.)
But some in the White House, including in Cheney’s office, had made just such an assumption—that “the lack of evidence means they must have it,� the former official said.
How history will remember 00’s: Slouching to Holocust 2.0.