An Antiwar Radio exclusive!

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/08_06_30_hersh.mp3]

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, author of the book Chain of Command and many important articles about the Bush administrationâ€™s Iran policy, discusses his new one for The New Yorker magazine, â€œPreparing the Battlefield,â€ Secretary Gatesâ€™s warning about long term consequences of an air attack, the turning over of much of Americaâ€™s covert action under the control of the Joint Special Operations Command to avoid oversight, the backing of Sunni radicals in Iran, Baluchistan, Kurdistan etc. in order to try to provoke the Iranian government into escalating as an excuse for war.

MP3 here. (6:18)