> It is hard to imagine a more consequential singular leak than one that reveals a carefully-planned human-intelligence counter-proliferation mission against a

> It is hard to imagine a more consequential singular leak than one that reveals a carefully-planned human-intelligence counter-proliferation mission against a hostile state.  It is hard for me to get up in arms about Iran seeking a nuclear power program when: * In the 1950s Iran had a democratic, secular parliament, which was overthrown and turned into a puppet dictatorship by the US and UK because Mossadegh wanted to nationalize Iran's oil resources. * The nuclear power industry in the US used to run magazine ads in the 1970s boasting about how they were "proliferating" nuclear energy to Iran ( http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/shah-iran.jpg http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sh... ), with Henry Kissinger making statements about how we should encourage Iran to have nuclear power etc. * At the end of the 1970's, despite the Savak secret police torturing and murdering secular left wing opposition to the dictatorship (with CIA help), Iranian nationalists still managed to rise up and overthrow the puppet dictatorship - with the main force being the religious right, partly because the government had killed off and driven into exile a lot of the secular left wing opposition. * The US takes the Shah in and Iranians believe due to this are planning another coup. The US declares Iran an enemy and seeks a worldwide ban on arms import to Iran. The US sends Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq and begins arming Saddam Hussein to fight Iran and the Kurds. When a Kurdish uprising occurs in the north, the US lifts sanctions against Iraq and sends helicopters to Iraq so Hussein can gas the Kurds. The US continues to arm Hussein after gassing the Kurds. Decades later, the US sanctimoniously uses this as one of the reasons to invade Iraq. Then Reagan begins secretly and illegally arming Iran, so as to fund another illegal and secret war against the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. * One of the major issues in Middle East nuclear proliferation is that Israel is a nuclear power in the region. All calls from Iran and other Middle East countries to address this in a broad peace plan or anti-proliferation plan are rejected by the US. The "only democracy in the Middle East" (which controls the West Bank but "democratically" forbids Palestinians there a vote in the Knesset, although some Russian Jew just off an airplane can move to a West Bank settlement and vote) is de facto a nuclear power and the US declares it can be and Iran and other Middle East countries can't be. So it is hard for me to shed a tear that the US can't persecute its own press for reporting on its hypocritical, sanctimonious attitude towards Iran.