Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>Sy Hurst must have known this and sat back on the story for a year because he's a neocon.<<<


For once there's a grain of truth in your post (by accident incidentally). Hersh DID know about it a year ago and talked about it but got trashed by the WH as usual and the story disappeared.


BLITZER: The stunning intelligence turnaround on Iran's nuclear weapons program comes as little surprise to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Seymour Hersh. He wrote back in July of 2006 in "The New Yorker" about the lack of evidence that Iran was trying to build a bomb.

Sy Hersh is joining us now live here in THE SITUATION ROOM.

He also wrote an article in November of last year, 2006: "The Next Act: Is A Damaged Administration Less Likely to Attack Iran or More?," in which you said there was a new National Intelligence Estimate circulating, suggesting they didn't really have a nuclear weapons program that was ongoing any longer.

SEYMOUR HERSH, "THE NEW YORKER": Exactly right.

BLITZER: So what do you think?

HERSH: Well, I...

BLITZER: I mean if you knew that a year ago, you know, what does that mean?

HERSH: At the time, I wrote that there was a tremendous fight about it, because Cheney in the White House -- the vice president did not want to hear this. So that there was a fight about that intelligence. And, actually, for the last year, I think the vice president's office pretty much has kept -- you know, the vice president has kept his foot on the neck of that report. That report was bottled up for a year.

The intelligence we learned about yesterday has been circulating inside this government at the highest levels for the last year -- and probably longer.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/04/sitroom.02.html


You still think Bush had no idea until yesterday?