Seymour Hersh’s Latest Bombshell: U.S. Military Undermined Obama on Syria with Tacit Help to Assad | Democracy Now!
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(...) AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the source that you used for this story and the criticism of your single-source method.
SEYMOUR HERSH: Oh, my god. Well, you know, as you know, it’s usually anonymous sources you get criticized for. That’s always been traditionally, although any day in The New York Times and Washington Post, they’re full of anonymous sources. That’s an easy way out. I wish I could tell you that I haven’t been relying on this particular person for since 9/11, but I have been. And many of the stories I wrote for The New Yorker about what was going on inside Iran, what was going—there was no bombs inside Iraq, part of those early stories I was writing, all came from one particularly well-informed person, who, as—you know, who, for a lot of reasons, I can’t make public. One is them is this government would prosecute him.(...)
Sy Hersh: Backing Assad’s Ouster, Has Hillary Clinton Forgotten the Lessons of Iraq & Libya?
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(...) AMY GOODMAN: I want to go back to your—the key point that you make in this piece. It’s a kind of coup policy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff conducting a very different policy than President Obama was espousing. What has the White House—how have they responded to your piece, if they have?
SEYMOUR HERSH: I don’t think they want to hear about it. He’s in Hawaii. The mainstream press is sort of like, you know, “What? This can’t be. It’s an anonymous source.” And you know the drill. We’ve been—you and I have been talking since 9/11. Every time I do a story, one of the things we talk about is—one of the reason I’m delighted to go on your show is, at least here I can have more than three or four sentences. (...)