NY Times Reporter Subpoenaed: Leaked CIA/Mossad Iranian Nuclear Info
How long before Americans get sick enough of the New York Times?
James Risen is this “Hunting the CIA” type of guy who wrote abook “State of War” in 2006 which accused the CIA and the Bush administration of doing all kinds of crazy shit.
The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs. About three months ago, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena against him, ordering Risen to give evidence in court. A heavy blackout has been imposed on the affair, with the only hint being that it has to do with sensitive matters of “national security.”
But conversations with several sources who are familiar with the affair indicate that Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran’s nuclear program.
Risen included this information in his book, “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,” which was published in 2006. In the book, he discusses a number of ideas which he says were thought up jointly by CIA and Mossad operatives to sabotage Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
One of these ideas was to build electromagnetic devices, smuggling them inside Iran to sabotage electricity lines leading to the country’s central nuclear sites. According to the plan, the operation was supposed to cause a series of chain reactions which would damage extremely powerful short circuits in the electrical supply that would have led to failures of the super computers of Iran’s nuclear sites.
According to the book, the Mossad planners proposed that they would be responsible for getting the electromagnetic facilities into Iran with the aid of their agents in Iran. However, a series of technical problems prevented the plan’s execution.
Another of the book’s important revelations, which made the administration’s blood boil about James Risen, appeared in a chapter describing what was known as Operation Merlin, the code name for another CIA operation supposed to penetrate the heart of Iran’s nuclear activity, collect information about it and eventually disrupt it.
Read the full Haaretz article here.
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Sometimes I miss the tactics of Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and FDR. Those are 3 Presidents that sure as hell wouldn’t have this crap go on for so long.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:07 amWhy would any American want to leak this information? Our government’s main responsibility is to keep us safe. Preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons is a very big part of that. Does this guy not understand that the biggest military victories throughout history have been planned and executed in complete secrecy?
We are not in a state of war because Bush placed us there. We are in a state of war because radical muslims and their leaders have declared jihad upon us.
God teaches us not to hate, but it’s really hard to not hate these traitorous Americans.
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of your opponent’s fate.” - Sun Tzu “The Art of War”
March 6th, 2008 at 9:29 am[[Why would any American want to leak this information?]]
Because the CIA is chock full of incompetent, anti-American, anti-Bush liberals.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:37 amPeople like this so called gentleman know the only way for them to have some measure of notoriety is by leaking or making up intell to leak. He is a pantywaist coward that wants to be famous. He thought to do that by riding on the backs of our intell services. When will people start putting our national security first. Why would you support Iran and THAT IS what he has done. This regime would be the first to get rid of him in a most unpleasant way for running his mouth. Sometimes discretion is the better of part of valor.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:07 amIf I were in charge…..from stem to stern they’d all be in the clink facing charges of treason and sedition. As would several politicians that have undermined policy and security.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:26 amThe super computers…………I wonder if those came from China via Clinton????? Paying the price for a traitor is yet to come.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:20 pm