Sy Hersh was on Real Time last night, and, like always, offered some serious insight into the rarely seen world of Washington politics.

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Common Dreams has the Frank Rich article and Hersh's latest New Yorker piece on Iran can be found here. It's rather lengthy but certainly worth the read. In it, he documents how our current Middle East policy ends up empowering Sunni extremists (al Qaeda) through covert and Congressionally unsanctioned methods. I have to say that after reading it I'm infinitely more informed, but equally as confused. Nevertheless, there is simply no more revered, respected and credible investigative journalist in America than Seymour Hersh; he's right on nearly everything and we should take his warnings about the Bush administration's true intentions towards Iran very seriously.