From Think Progress
By Faiz

On CNN, New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh reported that a new CIA assessment concludes that there’s no evidence Iran is doing anything that puts them close to a bomb. Despite the intelligence agency’s conclusion, Hersh reports that the White House is still aggressively moving ahead with preparations for a military conflict with Iran.

As part of the White House’s preparations for Iran, Hersh says President Bush and Vice President Cheney are stovepiping intelligence and keeping information provided by the Israelis hidden from the CIA.

The Israelis are telling the White House, according to Hersh’s new article The Next Act, that they have a reliable agent inside Iran who reports that the nation is working on a trigger for a bomb. Of course the people in the CIA want to know who [the agent] is, obviously, Hersh said. They certainly want to know what other evidence he has of actual making of a warhead. This is the internecine fight that’s going on — the same fight, by the way, that we had before Iraq.

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