This Is How A Police State Protects “Secrets” - Marcy Wheeler/Salon

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156. answered in #116

...it was alerting Congress to a dangerously counterproductive attempt to provide Iran with nuclear blueprints for the dubious goal of slowing down a nuclear weapon's program which even the Clinton Administration didn't find evidence for. That conclusion that Iran was developing nukes was actually first introduced in any government report at that point as justification to get authority to carry out the blueprint plan. All of this took place in an atmosphere where Bush and others in Congress were looking for pretext to bomb or invade Iran over what the IAEA later determined was likely 'fabricated' evidence which they concluded did not indicate any nuclear weapons program at all in Iran.

Much like Ellsberg's opposition to the Vietnam war and his revelations of false flag event involving the Gulf of Tonkin, Sterling's revelations to Congress provided evidence of similar deceptions and U.S. government chicanery which they were using to portray and frame Iran as a nuclear aggressor.



Gareth Porter discusses this in his book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.

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