Seymour Hersh is the investigative reporter who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories. Now, in this month’s The New Yorker magazine, Hersh talks about the Bush administration’s covert activities in Iran. All the more shocking for the non-sensational way he presents the information, he reveals that we have been funding terrorist groups such as the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq in Iran. Bush and Cheney have built multiple chains of command that report to them, not to commanders in the field. More in the video interview below and in Hersh’s article in The New Yorker.

Update: Hersh discusses his findings in detail in this NPR radio interview.

Seymour Hersh on CNN’s Late Edition, June 29:

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Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, 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.

Full article at The New Yorker…