Sunday, August 29, 2004
Iran-NeoCon(tra) II?
Last week the press reported that the FBI is investigating a CIA analyst suspected of passing highly sensitive information to Israel about the Bush administration's policy towards Iran. It seems the analyst is Larry Franklin, who works in the office of Undersecretary Douglas Feith. You'll recall that it was Feith's office that sponsored Ahmed Chalabi (at significant taxpayer expense!) and pushed the alleged Osama/Saddam partnership which has been disproven.
It appears that we've only seen the tip of the iceburg. In the first installment of an investigative project by Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris we read about yet another rogue intelligence operation involving key NeoCons, both inside and outside the Bush administration. Naturally, Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar of Iran-Contra fame is in the thick of it too.
Can anyone really be surprised at this? Didn't we all watch George W. Bush surround himself with cronies of his father's administration when he took office in 2000? Yes, that would be the same George H.W. Bush who, as former Director of the CIA and sitting Vice President, told the whopper of all time when he claimed to have been "outside the loop" on Iran-NeoCon(tra) I.
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It appears that we've only seen the tip of the iceburg. In the first installment of an investigative project by Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris we read about yet another rogue intelligence operation involving key NeoCons, both inside and outside the Bush administration. Naturally, Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar of Iran-Contra fame is in the thick of it too.
Can anyone really be surprised at this? Didn't we all watch George W. Bush surround himself with cronies of his father's administration when he took office in 2000? Yes, that would be the same George H.W. Bush who, as former Director of the CIA and sitting Vice President, told the whopper of all time when he claimed to have been "outside the loop" on Iran-NeoCon(tra) I.
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