Seymour Hersh: No Iranian Nuclear Program

Could It be Dejavu all over again. Is Bush pushing for war with Iran just as he did in 2003 with Iraq? Using bogus intelligence?:

A top US investigative reporter says a classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House.

Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the The New Yorker magazine released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran after the Democrats won control of the US Congress last week.

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Hillary suffers from a vision problem and lack of enthusiasm from the Dems:

If she does, it will not be because her party is clamoring for her to do so. While her celebrity and command of issues always draw friendly crowds, they cannot be fairly described as tumultuous. While Bill is a virtuoso at weaving together seemingly unrelated threads, Hillary is still too often what one of her biographers, Michael Tomasky, calls the "Laundry Lady," reciting a laundry list of worthy ideas that don't yet add up to a compelling vision.

Hillary's Obama problem:

The bigger problem for her would be getting past Barack Obama, who now seems poised to run. With much less name recognition than Clinton, he trails her by only 12 points in the latest Gallup poll (the rest of the Democrats are far back). And Obama won the first trial heat of '08: he was the biggest draw for other Democratic candidates this fall with a magnetism on the trail unmatched by anyone in politics. (hot chicks dig obama read one button at a Nashville rally). His stump speech is rousing and redemptive and more compelling than, say, Bill Clinton's was in 1991.

Newsweek is wrong. Carville is a Clinton proxy. More from Newsweek:

The team [...] is mostly from the East Wing of the Clinton White House (Patti Solis Doyle, Caprice Marshall), not the West Wing. "Some of us who were with him will be with her; a lot of others won't be," says one former White House aide unwilling to publicly identify which is which. Pollster Mark Penn, fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe and media adviser Mandy Grunwald are onboard, and James Carville and Paul Begala would help from the sidelines. The Clinton camp is not the monolith conservatives make it out to be. Carville's call last week for the ouster of Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic National Committee was his initiative, and came without the approval of the Clintons, who aren't spoiling for a fight with Dean. "I'm 62 years old and my parents are gone. I don't ask permission," Carville says.