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The Sublime, Never Supine, Sy Hersh

Laura Rozen digs into the Sy Hersh article at War & Piece:

More on Seymour Hersh’s Iraq elections piece from Eric Umansky and Democracy Arsenal’s Michael Signer. As I wrote over in a comment there, given that the piece is also about the allegation that the Bush administration is increasingly moving delicate foreign policy decisions off the books, and evading Congressional reporting requirements, I am a bit astonished it hasn’t generated more public comment, including in the blogosphere. Writes Hersh:

In my reporting for this story, one theme that emerged was the Bush Administration’s increasing tendency to turn to off-the-books covert actions to accomplish its goals. This allowed the Administration to avoid the kind of stumbling blocks it encountered in the debate about how to handle the elections: bureaucratic infighting, congressional second-guessing, complaints from outsiders.

Thoughts?


+ + + If you missed it, <a href="

“>check out Amy Goodman’s interview of Hersh yesterday. Hersh said:

[M]y big issue with the Congress is I can’t decide in any given day whether they are prone or supine.

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