Congress has funded clandestine military operations against Iran, to the tune of up to $400 million in secret spending. That's according to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who writes in the New Yorker that both Republican and Democratic leaders agreed to a request, called a Presidential Finding, to fund covert operations to back dissident group and to collect intelligence about Iran's nuclear weapons plans. Hersh writes that Bush made the secret request to Congress despite the National Intelligence Estimate report that made clear that Iran put an end to its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Hersh was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now today, where he said that it looks as if the United States is ready to attack Iran immediately.

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