Sy Hersh's articles about Iran's nuclear program

I have always been a fan of Sy Hersh.  He gets inside information and it always ends up being so far from the "Talking Points" coming out of the government (Clinton, Bush or Obama).

In the interview with "Democracy Now" he talks about the REAL Iranian program:
Video.... http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/21/seymour_hersh_propaganda_used_ahead_of

Then he goes on CNN Wolf's "The Situation Room" and talks about how Sy's information was accurate in the past.    Crook and Liars link

Then I found this great TIME LINE of the NIE story...

NIE time line

• November 2006: NIE "completed"
• January 5, 2007: John Negroponte resigns as DNI, reportedly because of fight over NIE; Negroponte would move to become a top official at State
• January 11: US takes six Iranians in custody after a raid on a diplomatic building in Irbil, Iraq
• February 2007: NIE completed; Cheney objecting to content
• February 7: Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Ali Reza Asgari arrives in Turkey; he disappears there, and is presumed to have defected or been kidnapped; in March he was reported to be cooperating with western intelligence
• April 26: Thomas Fingar announces NIE will be delayed due to Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery
• May 12: Cheney meets with Saudi Arabia
• July 2007: Intelligence community intercepts communications that verify claim Iran’s nuclear program remains suspended; Senior Administration Officials briefed
• August 2007: Bush claims he learned new intelligence exists
• August 9: Bush substitutes the claim that Iran was seeking nuclear technology for earlier claim that they were seeking nukes. (h/t Froomkin)

• They have expressed their desire to be able to enrich uranium, which we believe is a step toward having a nuclear weapons program. That, in itself, coupled with their stated foreign policy, is very dangerous for world stability. . . . It’s a very troubling nation right now.
  

• August 29-30: Six nuclear warheads "accidentally" get flown from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana
• September 6: Israel strikes site in Syria
• October 2007: BushCo considers spiking the NIE
• October 14: Putin meets with Germany’s Angela Merkel; news reports of assassination attempt planned in Iran
• October 16: From Iran, Putin says an attack on Iran is an attack on Russia
• October 17: Bush makes World War III comments
• October 19: Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
• October 24: McConnell writes memo outlining conditions for declassifying NIEs
• October 27: David Shedd reveals Mike McConnell has made it harder to declassify NIE judgments–leading most observers to believe the Iran NIE would not be released
• November 3: Pervez Musharraf declares martial law
• November 9: The US releases prisoners captured in Irbil in January
• November 13: McConnell says NIE will be done "in about a month" but that judgments will not be released; he also says he would resign if results were "cherry picked"
• November 16: At OPEC, the Saudi Foreign Minister refuses to make a public statement about ditching the dollar–but he says the economic ministers should discuss it
• November 22: Mohammed el Baradei states Iran is cooperating, though IAEA still has questions about its nuclear program
• November 23: The Saudis confirm attendance at Annapolis Conference; on the same day, they send the conservative Nawaz Sharif back to Pakistan to contest elections
• November 25: Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan
• November 26: Syria confirms attendance at Annapolis Conference
• November 26: Per Seymour Hersh, Bush tells Ehud Olmert what’s in the NIE.
• November 27: The Annapolis Peace Conference
• November 28: The day Hadley claims Bush was briefed on the NIE; Bush meets with Olmert again; in Pakistan, Musharraf relinquishes military position
• November 29: Khalilzad submits a resolution endorsing Annapolis at UN; Condi calls Khalilzad in the middle of the meeting to ask WTF he’s doing
• November 30: A Khalilzad deputy withdraws the UN resolution while Khalilzad is in "previously scheduled" meeting in DC with Condi; Iranian nuclear negotiator Saaed Jalili tells Javier Solana that all previous negotiations are meaningless (h/t Danger Room)
• December 1: Mohammed el Baradei states that bombing Iran would ensure it gets the bomb more quickly
• December 3: Unexpected public release of NIE showing Iran has given up nuke program; Nawaz Sharif barred from participating in election
• December 4: Israelis say the NIE is wrong; Bush announces his first trip to Israel as President (h/t Laura); both Annapolis and Iran’s purported nukes are on the agenda; Khalilzad calls the claim that he had submitted the resolution without vetting it bull