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Aired: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7-8PM ET
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports in this week's New Yorker that the Pentagon is conducting covert operations in Iran. Publicly, President Bush has been urging diplomacy, but privately, Hersh writes, the administration has been looking at more aggressive paths to target and take out Iran's nuclear facilities.
The Pentagon has called Hersh's report "riddled with errors." But Hersh has been right before -- on My Lai and Abu Ghraib. And by all accounts, the course that the U.S. will take to handle the nuclear ambitions of Tehran remains unclear, but the implications for the Pentagon and its war on terror loom.
Tune in to hear about Iran, its nuclear ambitions, and changing the shape of the American military's role in response and beyond.
| · | Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, The New Yorker. | | · |
Patrick Clawson, deputy director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. | | · |
Peter Spiegel, defense correspondent, The Financial Times. | | · |
Ali Ansari, professor of history, University of St. Andrews and author of "Modern Iran Since 1921" and "Iran, Islam and Democracy." |
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Colin Powell Bows Out |
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After a few more hours of grilling, Condoleezza Rice received the approval of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, paving the way for her confirmation by the full Senate as Secretary of State tomorrow. Only two of the Committee's 18 members voted against Rice's nomination: former Presidential nominee John Kerry and California's Barbara Boxer, who was among Rice's toughest questioners over the past two days.
Meanwhile, across town, the man Rice will replace gave his farewell address. Colin Powell leaves with what is widely seen as a diminished reputation after four years under George W. Bush. But he told colleagues at the State Department, in an emotional speech, that "We have much to look back on with satisfaction."
Hear an excerpt from Powell's good-bye speech.
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