Juan Cole: Candidate for CIA Chief Jane Harman Advocated Ethnic Breakup of Iran

[unhappycamper]

http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/candidate-for-cia-chief-jane-harman-advocated-ethnic-breakup-of-iran.html


Candidate for CIA Chief Jane Harman Advocated Ethnic Breakup of Iran
Posted on 11/15/2012 by Juan

CNN lists former California representative Jane Harman, now head of the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., as a potential successor to Gen. David Petraeus as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

This idea is a very, very bad one. Harman is an Iran hawk who would be perfectly happy to give Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the war on Iran he so desperately wants the US to fight for him.

She accepts uncritically the allegation that Iran is going for broke in trying to build a nuclear warhead (there is no good evidence for Iran wanting an actual bomb as opposed to the capability, similar to Japan’s, to construct one quickly if deterrence against foreign invasion was needed).

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Harman’s elevation to the CIA would politicize the agency and distort Iran analysis, removing a potential obstacle to hawks who are annoyed that the National Intelligence Estimates don’t support Netanyahu’s alarmism.

[HiPointDem]

1. kr

[OldDem2012]

2. Great...another NeoCon. nt.