Preparing the Battlefield

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…