Traders?

And this from the Blotter; “The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a "nonlethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions.”

Here we go again. These are exactly the same things we did to Iran when we thought it made sense to remove their president and install the Shah, a dictator and our man.

Of course ABC was vilified for breaking the story, even called "traders" by one ignorant commenter. ABC's side of the story? "In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground. ABC News management gave them the repeated opportunity to make whatever objection they wanted to regarding our report. They chose not to."

Duh! Of course they didn’t object. They wanted Iran to know about it.