with this interview from back in early march with the cia whistleblower and american hero jeffrey sterling sterling if you remember help blow the whistle on not only the mysterious operation merlin which involved the united states is dangerous efforts to attack iran's nuclear program but also he blew the whistle on the institutional racism found within the central intelligence agency we started out by asking him about operation merlin and what role did his whistleblowing play in exposing it as one of the cia's all time great blow. well when i came into operation merlin and it had been going for some time before my involvement i was assured of all these safeguards and that it was approved by the highest levels of government. and background on the operation as had been said it was designed to slow down the iranian program to gain a nuclear weapon well during the process all of the safeguards that i was told about turned out to be false. and so i felt that it was going to be actually something that would inhance or speed up the iranian efforts to gain a nuclear weapon as opposed to hamper them so i ma