Democracy Now has an article and a video Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, U.S. Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux.

Earlier this week, The New Yorker magazine published his latest investigation titled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real is the Threat?” Hersh writes, quote, “There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments, suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq eight years ago—allowing anxieties about the policies of a tyrannical regime to distort our estimations of the state’s military capacities and intentions.”

In the interview with Seymour Hersh they ask him about a report in The New York Times that seems to contradict what he is saying. Hersh debunks the spin that The New York Times puts on the report from the IAEA.  So the IAEA report does exist, but it does not say what The New York Times wants you to believe it says.

Knowing the history of how much The New York Times promotes war with stories that are outright fabrications and has done so as recently as the lead up to the war with Iraq, I tend to believe that Hersh’s take is more plausible than the one from The New York Times.

And Richard H. wonders why I harbor such skepticism about the so called reputation that The New York Times has for being THE newspaper of record.

Furthermore, you have to wonder why the Obama administration doesn’t do more to quash this behavior of distortion of intelligence which was so egregious in the Bush administration.  Why would they not want the American people to know the truth?  Who in this administration is still promoting war under false premises, and why doesn’t Obama stop it?

Is there some higher power than the President that prevents him from formulating policy based on the truth?

These are all questions that disturb me very much about the current administration.  The situation may be slightly more leaning toward truth telling in this administration than in the Bush administration, which is the right direction.  It is not a big enough change to make me happy, though.

We supporters of Obama need to demand better from him.  With the obstructionism of Republicans he will not get to have every policy that he wants.  However, he has total control of whether he tells us the truth or not.  For contributing to the coverup of the truth, I feel justified in feeling very disappointed.