Attacking Iran: what is the surprise? Old analysis still fresh news from 2005
US government has been working on this since the start of second Bush administration The Coming Wars by Seymour Hersh The New Yorker, 24 January 2005 www.globalresearch.ca 18 January 2005 The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HER501A.html What the Pentagon can now do in secret George W. Bush’s reelection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bus...