person:seymour hersh

Frappe aérienne en Syrie : « on a un p*tain de problème » | Mondialisation - Centre de Recherche sur la Mondialisation
▻http://www.mondialisation.ca/frappe-aerienne-en-syrie-on-a-un-ptain-de-probleme/5596301

Et à venir, dans le même esprit, une bonne grosse pétition pour reprocher à Macron de ne pas lancer nos p’tits gars sur Damas...

Pour le retrouver : l’article de Hersh publié par Welt : Trump‘s Red Line
▻https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html

Hersh had also offered the article to the London Review of Books. The editors accepted it, paid for it, and prepared a fact checked article for publication, but decided against doing so, as they told Hersh, because of concerns that the magazine would vulnerable to criticism for seeming to take the view of the Syrian and Russian governments when it came to the April 4th bombing in Khan Sheikhoun.

Sur le fait que London Review of Books n’a pas publié ce nouvel article : The Fog of War
▻https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165906452/The-Fog-of-War.html

Hersh had also offered the article to the London Review of Books. The editors accepted it, paid for it, and prepared a fact checked article for publication, but decided against doing so, as they told Hersh, because of concerns that the magazine would vulnerable to criticism for seeming to take the view of the Syrian and Russian governments when it came to the April 4th bombing in Khan Sheikhoun.

Le Welt publie aussi la transcription d’un enregistrement entre un « soldat américain » et « conseiller en sécurité » : „We got a fuckin‘ problem“
▻https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905618/We-got-a-fuckin-problem.html

American Soldier: We got a fuckin‘ problem

Security-Adviser: What happened? Is it the Trump ignoring the Intel and going to try to hit the Syrians? And that we’re pissing on the Russians?

AS: This is bad...Things are spooling up.

SA: You may not have seen trumps press conference yesterday. He’s bought into the media story without asking to see the Intel. We are likely to get our asses kicked by the Russians. Fucking dangerous. Where are the godamn adults? The failure of the chain of command to tell the President the truth, whether he wants to hear it or not, will go down in history as one of our worst moments.

The Fog of War
Von Dirk Laabs | Stand: 25.06.2017

As has always been his practice, Hersh has told Welt am Sonntag the identities of all the sources he quotes anonymously in his story about Trump’s retaliatory strike against Syria. The paper was thus able to speak independently to the central source in the U.S.

Traduction française ►https://seenthis.net/messages/610823

After Hersh Investigation, Media Connive in Propaganda War on Syria
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/30/after-hersh-investigation-media-connive-in-propaganda-war-on-syria

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If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and pliant, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

#monde_libre #propagande #sans_vergogne

Le lien vers l’interview (en anglais) dont il est question, signalée par @kassem, ici : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/482898

Al Qaeda ? Jamais entendu parler…

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BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing - Glenn Greenwald
▻https://theintercept.com/2015/10/26/bbc-protects-uks-close-ally-saudi-arabia-with-incredibly-dishonest-and

But what this does highlight is just how ludicrous — how beyond parody — the 14-year-old war on terror has become, how little it has to do with its original ostensible justification. The regime with the greatest plausible proximity to the 9/11 attack — Saudi Arabia — is the closest U.S. ally in the region next to Israel. The country that had absolutely nothing to do with that attack, and which is at least as threatened as the U.S. by the religious ideology that spurred it — Iran — is the U.S.’s greatest war-on-terror adversary. Now we have a virtual admission from the Saudis that they are arming a group that centrally includes al Qaeda, while the U.S. itself has at least indirectly done the same (just as was true in Libya). And we’re actually at the point where western media outlets are vehemently denouncing Russia for bombing al Qaeda elements, which those outlets are manipulatively referring to as “non-ISIS groups.”

It’s not a stretch to say that the faction that provides the greatest material support to al Qaeda at this point is the U.S. and its closest allies. That is true even as al Qaeda continues to be paraded around as the prime need for the ongoing war.

Là aussi on avait ricané,
►http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/benghazi-hillary-clinton-is-guilty-but-not-as-charged

In April 2013, the famed US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published in the London Review of Books an account of what the CIA calls a “rat line” which was created in early 2012 “to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition”. This was the result of an agreement between the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to equip the armed Syrian rebels, and much of this weaponry ended up with jihadis affiliated to al-Qaeda. Hersh says that an account of what happened in setting up of the “rat line” is in a highly classified unpublished section of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into the death of Mr Stevens in Benghazi which was issued in January 2013.

Under the terms of a secret agreement between the US and Turkey, partly funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals were procured in Libya by retired US soldiers through Libyan front companies, with the operation overseen by the CIA and MI6. Normally, the CIA should have reported what it was doing to Congress, but an exception is made for liaison missions and “the involvement of MI6 enabled the CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison mission”. Hersh cites a former intelligence officer as saying that the only purpose for the US to keep open a consulate in Benghazi “was to provide cover for the movement of arms”. After the murder of Mr Stevens, the CIA abruptly ended the operation which then came under Turkish control.

The story would explain a relationship between the CIA and jihadis in Benghazi that might have led to the Americans being over-confident that they were safe from attack. Western governments have largely blamed Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Gulf monarchies for arming the jihadi opposition in Syria, but the “rat line” shows the complicity of Western intelligence agencies.

(Vrais et faux) #idiots_utiles

Je ne pense pas en effet que ce soit une histoire de secret.
Tout le monde a su que les USA avaient fait un faux pour intervenir en Irak, ils ont massacré ce pays et pour la presse grand public, les USA restent au-dessus de tout soupçon.

Hersh (Grand journaliste renommé et reconnu par ses pairs) écrit que les services spéciaux ont envoyé une douzaine de leurs meilleurs éléments pour descendre un vieillard désarmé et malade avec la complicité des pakistanais qui leur ouvrait le chemin.
Non ça ne peut pas se « comprendre » au sens du contenant trop petit pour prendre ce contenu.

Heureusement Seymour Hersh se moque de ces réactions et continue d’écrire.

J’aimerai savoir si l’article de Hersh a été traduit.
En attendant je trouve ce commentaire, remettant la question dans le contexte politique global, des plus intéressant :
L’assassinat de Ben Laden et les mensonges de la « guerre contre le terrorisme » Par Patrick Martin
14 mai 2015
►http://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2015/mai2015/pers-m14.shtml

Traduction en français :
L’Assassinat d’Oussama ben Laden, par Seymour Hersh
▻http://lesactualitesdudroit.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2015/05/15/l-assassinat-d-oussama-ben-laden-par-seymour-he

Pakistanis Knew Where Bin Laden Was, Say U.S. Sources
▻http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistanis-knew-where-bin-laden-was-say-us-sources-n357306

Two intelligence sources tell NBC News that the year before the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a “walk in” asset from Pakistani intelligence told the CIA where the most wanted man in the world was hiding - and these two sources plus a third say that the Pakistani government knew where bin Laden was hiding all along.

The U.S. government has always characterized the heroic raid by Seal Team Six that killed bin Laden as a unilateral U.S. operation, and has maintained that the CIA found him by tracking couriers to his walled complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The new revelations do not necessarily cast doubt on the overall narrative that the White House began circulating within hours of the May 2011 operation. The official story about how bin Laden was found was constructed in a way that protected the identity and existence of the asset, who also knew who inside the Pakistani government was aware of the Pakistani intelligence agency’s operation to hide bin Laden, according to a special operations officer with prior knowledge of the bin Laden mission. The official story focused on a long hunt for bin Laden’s presumed courier, Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.

While NBC News has long been pursuing leads about a “walk in” and about what Pakistani intelligence knew, both assertions were made public in a London Review of Books article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

Author Reported Essentials of Hersh’s bin Laden Story in 2011 — With Seemingly Different Sources
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/former-professor-reported-basics-hershs-bin-laden-story-2011-seemingly-di

R.J. Hillhouse, a former professor, Fulbright fellow and novelist whose writing on intelligence and military outsourcing has appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times, made the same main assertions in 2011 about the death of Osama bin Laden as Seymour Hersh’s new story in the London Review of Books — apparently based on different sources than those used by Hersh.

Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011. Three months later, on August 7, Hillhouse posted a story on her blog “The Spy Who Billed Me” stating that (1) the U.S. did not learn about bin Laden’s location from tracking an al Qaeda courier, but from a member of the Pakistani intelligence service who wanted to collect the $25 million reward the U.S. had offered for bin Laden; (2) Saudi Arabia was paying Pakistan to keep bin Laden under the equivalent of house arrest; (3) Pakistan was pressured by the U.S. to stand down its military to allow the U.S. raid to proceed unhindered; and (4) the U.S. had planned to claim that bin Laden had been killed in a drone strike in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but was forced to abandon this when one of the Navy SEAL helicopters crashed.

The Spy Who Billed Me: Hersh Did Not Break Bin Laden Cover Up Story
▻http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2015/05/hersh-did-not-break-bin-laden-cover-up-story.html

Seymour Hersh’s story, “The Killing of Bin Laden,” in the London Review of Books has a fundamental problem: it’s either plagiarism or unoriginal.

If it’s fiction—as some have implied, it’s plagiarism. If it’s true, it’s not original. The story was broken here on The Spy Who Billed Me four years ago, in August 2011

[…]

I have had great respect for Seymour Hersh, arguably one of the greatest investigative journalists of our time. I do not believe his story is fiction. I trust my sources—which were clearly different than his. I am, however, profoundly disappointed that he has not given credit to the one who originally broke the story.

La presse semble vouloir régler son compte à ce grand journaliste.

Etats-Unis. Mort de Ben Laden : une enquête très polémique
Publié le 12/05/2015

(...) D’aucuns, à l’instar du site internet Vox [ ▻http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bin-laden ] , n’hésitent cependant pas à parler du penchant du journaliste pour la théorie du complot. Pour le journaliste Max Fisher, “l’enquête de Seymour Hersh est certes impressionnante à lire, mais elle ne résiste pas à un examen minutieux des faits et est bourrée de contradictions et d’incohérences”. Elle serait une bonne illustration de la dérive de Seymour Hersh “qui s’est éloigné, ces dernières années, du journalisme d’investigation pour s’engager sur le terrain glissant des conspirations.” (...)

cet article a été repris et cité ce matin sur France-Culture Par Thomas CLUZEL

Que s’est-il passé la nuit où Ben Laden a été tué ? x
12.05.2015
▻http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-revue-de-presse-internationale-que-s-est-il-passe-la-nuit-ou-

Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

▻http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/12/seymour_hersh_details_explosive_story_on

Oui, l’article de Vox a beaucoup circulé. Cet article de The Nation (assez marrant) répond à l’article de Vox : It’s a Conspiracy ! How to Discredit Seymour Hersh | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/blog/207001/its-conspiracy-how-discredit-seymour-hersh

Max Fisher, now at Vox, learned well during his apprenticeship under Marty Peretz at The New Republic. This week, he was among the first to try to smear Seymour Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books, which argued that pretty much everything we were told about the killing of Osama bin Laden was a lie. Most importantly, Hersh’s report questions the claim that Washington learned of OBL’s whereabouts thanks to torture—a claim popularized in the film Zero Dark Thirty.

There’s a standard boiler plate now when it comes to going after Hersh, and all Fisher, in “The Many Problems with Seymour Hersh’s Osama bin Laden Conspiracy Theory,” did was fill out the form: establish Hersh’s “legendary” status (which Fisher does in the first sentence); invoke his reporting in My Lai and Abu Ghraib; then say that a number of Hersh’s recent stories—such as his 2012 New Yorker piece that the United States was training Iranian terrorists in Nevada—have been “unsubstantiated” (of course, other reporters never “substantiated” Hersh’s claim that Henry Kissinger was directly involved in organizing the cover-up of the fire-bombing of Cambodia for years—but that claim was true); question Hersh’s sources; and then, finally, suggest that Hersh has gone “off the rails” to embrace “conspiracy theories.”

[…]

To accuse Hersh of falling under the thrall of “conspiracy theory” is to repudiate the whole enterprise of investigative journalism that Hersh helped pioneer. What has he written that wasn’t a conspiracy? But Fisher, and others, believe Hersh went too far when in a 2011 speech he made mention of the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei, tagging him as a Dan Brown fantasist. Here’s Fisher, in his debunking of Hersh’s recent essay: “The moment when a lot of journalists started to question whether Hersh had veered from investigative reporting into something else came in January 2011. That month, he spoke at Georgetown University’s branch campus in Qatar, where he gave a bizarre and rambling address alleging that top military and special forces leaders ‘are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.… many of them are members of Opus Dei.’”

But here’s Steve Coll, a reporter who remains within the acceptable margins, writing in Ghost Wars about Reagan’s CIA director, William Casey: “He was a Catholic Knight of Malta educated by Jesuits. Statues of the Virgin Mary filled his mansion.… He attended Mass daily and urged Christian faith upon anyone who asked his advice…. He believed fervently that by spreading the Catholic church’s reach and power he could contain communism’s advance, or reverse it.” Oliver North, Casey’s Iran/Contra co-conspirator, worshiped at a “’charismatic’ Episcopalian church in Virginia called Church of the Apostles, which is organized into cell groups.”

Not too long ago, no less an establishment figure than Ben Bradlee, the editor of The Washington Post, could draw the connections between the shadowy national security state and right-wing Christianity: Iran/Contra was about many things, among them a right-wing Christian reaction against the growing influence of left-wing Liberation Theology in Latin America. Likewise, the US’s post-9/11 militarism was about many things, among them the reorganization of those right-wing Christians against what they identified as a greater existential threat than Liberation Theology: political Islam. Fisher should know this, as it was reported here, here, and here, among many other places.

Eager to debunk Hersh, it’s Fisher who has fallen down the rabbit hole of imperial amnesia.

Max Fisher n’est vraiment pas, pour dire le moins, un modèle d’objectivité.

Seymour Hersh Article Alleges Cover-Up in Bin Laden Hunt - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/us/seymour-hersh-article-alleges-cover-up-in-bin-laden-hunt.html?ref=todayspap

In one conceivable episode, Mr. Hersh writes that American intelligence officials were alerted to Bin Laden’s whereabouts by a Pakistani military officer who walked into the United States Embassy in Islamabad and was subsequently paid a reward and moved by the C.I.A. to the United States. The account told by the Obama administration after the raid — that the C.I.A. tracked down Bin Laden through the work of dogged analysts — was a ruse intended to protect the real informant, according to Mr. Hersh.

It is a deception that the C.I.A. has employed before, claiming for years that it discovered that one of its own, Aldrich H. Ames, was passing intelligence to the Soviet Union through the work of a team of analysts. The truth that eventually emerged was that crucial evidence against Mr. Ames came from a Soviet spy working for the C.I.A.

Yet other claims by Mr. Hersh would have required a cover-up extending from top American, Pakistani and Saudi officials down to midlevel bureaucrats.

[...]

Mr. Hersh is standing by his article. In a brief telephone interview on Monday, he said, “You can have your skepticism.”

His manner was cheerful and breezy, and he seemed unfazed about the controversy his reporting has stirred up. It is not the first time that Mr. Hersh’s work has been met with hostility from the authorities, and he laughed loudly at the mention of the denials from the White House and others.

“Those are classic nondenial denials,” he said, before rushing off to take a call from another reporter.

[...]

[...] Mr. Hersh’s story would probably have gained much less traction had it not been for the often contradictory details presented by the Obama administration after the raid, and the questions about it that remain unanswered.

Ben Laden : NBC confirme un élément de la thèse de Hersh
Mardi 12 mai 2015
▻http://blogues.lapresse.ca/hetu/2015/05/12/ben-laden-nbc-confirme-un-element-de-la-these-de-hersh

Les révélations de Seymour Hersh sur l’assassinat de Ben Laden sont à prendre au sérieux
12 mai 2015 | Par Thomas Cantaloube
▻http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/120515/les-revelations-de-seymour-hersh-sur-lassassinat-de-ben-laden-sont-prendre

Le vétéran américain du journalisme d’investigation livre dans un long article une version différente de ce qui s’est passé en mai 2011 à Abbottabad, quand le leader d’Al-Qaïda a été tué par un commando américain. Son récit est crédible et informé, autant en tout cas que celui fourni jusqu’ici par la Maison Blanche.

Seymour Hersh démasque les mensonges officiels sur le meurtre de Ben Laden
Par Niles Williamson - 13 mai 2015
▻http://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2015/mai2015/blsh-m13.shtml

L’Assassinat d’Oussama ben Laden (London Review of Books) - (1/4)
▻http://www.legrandsoir.info/l-assassinat-d-oussama-ben-laden-london-review-of-books-1-4.html

L’Assassinat d’Oussama ben Laden (London Review of Books) - (2/4)
▻http://www.legrandsoir.info/l-assassinat-d-oussama-ben-laden-london-review-of-books-2-4.html

« L’Assassinat d’Oussama ben Laden » par Seymour Hersh (3/4)
Par Seymour Hersh pour la London Review of Books, le 10 mai 2015
▻http://www.reopen911.info/News/2015/05/14/lassassinat-doussama-ben-laden-par-seymour-hersh-34
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The Detail in Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden Story That Rings True - Carlotta Gall
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/magazine/the-detail-in-seymour-hershs-bin-laden-story-that-rings-true.html

On this count, my own reporting tracks with Hersh’s. Beginning in 2001, I spent nearly 12 years covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for The Times. (In his article, Hersh cites an article I wrote for The Times Magazine last year, an excerpt from a book drawn from this reporting.) The story of the Pakistani informer was circulating in the rumor mill within days of the Abbottabad raid, but at the time, no one could or would corroborate the claim. Such is the difficulty of reporting on covert operations and intelligence matters; there are no official documents to draw on, few officials who will talk and few ways to check the details they give you when they do.

Two years later, when I was researching my book, I learned from a high-level member of the Pakistani intelligence service that the ISI had been hiding Bin Laden and ran a desk specifically to handle him as an intelligence asset. After the book came out, I learned more: that it was indeed a Pakistani Army brigadier — all the senior officers of the ISI are in the military — who told the C.I.A. where Bin Laden was hiding, and that Bin Laden was living there with the knowledge and protection of the ISI.

[…]

I do not recall ever corresponding with Hersh, but he is following up on a story that many of us assembled parts of. The former C.I.A. officer Larry Johnson aired the theory of the informant — credited to “friends who are still active” — on his blog within days of the raid. And Hersh appears to have succeeded in getting both American and Pakistani sources to corroborate it. His sources remain anonymous, but other outlets such as NBC News have since come forward with similar accounts. Finally, the Pakistani daily newspaper The News reported Tuesday that Pakistani intelligence officials have conceded that it was indeed a walk-in who provided the information on Bin Laden. The newspaper names the officer as Brigadier Usman Khalid; the reporter is sufficiently well connected that he should be taken seriously.

L’article rappelle aussi la proximité à l’époque de Hersh avec Michel Samaha, ce qui, évidemment, est de bonne guerre. Et qui rappelle que le problème avec Hersh s’est déroulé, initialement, en 2007.

Voir notamment cet article de Tony Badran en juin 2007, qui résume assez clairement l’angle d’attaque qui se met en place contre Hersh dès ce moment :
▻http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.fr/2007/06/wilfull-tool.html

Au sujet du « big lie », noter que l’article du Guardian a été corrigé quelques jours après sa publication, avec notamment cette mention :

Hersh has pointed out that he was in no way suggesting that Osama bin Laden was not killed in Pakistan, as reported, upon the president’s authority: he was saying that it was in the aftermath that the lying began.

Are the US and Turkey diverging over Syria policy?
par Cengiz Çandar
►http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/us-turkey-syria-diverging-policy.html##ixzz2yZZT84PM

US Produced Sarin Gas Used in Syria | Veterans Today
▻http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/04/08/296525

- How did you find out that chemical weapons were being transported into Syria from Georgia and what further information do you have about this?
Gordon Duff provided me with this information. It was also confirmed by my own sources. He stated, based on reliable sources, that chemical weapons were being transferred by sea from Georgia to Syria. They have human intelligence sources who find and track such materials. I have provided the government with those secret recordings, which I have obtained, including materials concerning illegal weapons deals in Georgia, including information about deals with Israel and of other types of material assistance. Gordon and his investigation team confirmed the accuracy of my information.
This is a team of American veterans who found out that the supply of chemical weapons in Syria was performed from outside, via Turkey. They have proof that heavy materials, which can be used to build underground bunkers, as well as special underground chemical, biological or even nuclear research facilities, were imported into Georgia back in 2010.

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Syria Special: Identifying the Sources for Hersh’s “Insurgents’ Chemical Weapons Attacks”
▻http://eaworldview.com/2014/04/syria-special-source-hershs-insurgents-carried-chemical-weapons-attacks

Of course, Hersh may have a source or sources who are not listed above. However, without information beyond his general labels, we have no way of establishing this.

Instead, we are left with the language of Hersh’s summary and the one document that he cites. Both the language and the document are remarkably similar to assertions — which put forth no evidence, apart from one claimed Department of Defense document — put out by the following, all of whom cite each other in the recycling of claims:

1. Yossef Bodansky, a former staffer for the US House of Representatives who is now senior editor of the Global Research website, notable for its criticism of US foreign policy and claims of conspiratorial US interventions, and who is linked to President Assad’s uncle;

2. The retired officers of the Veteran Intelligence Professonals for Sanity;

3. F. Michael Maloof, a former staffer of the Department of Defense.

Hersh était sur Democracy Now le 7 avril :
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/sy_hersh_reveals_potential_turkish_role

Meanwhile, the White House’s position, again, with this article, once again, even though we—this document they claim no longer existed, we ran a big chunk of it. Clearly, I have access to it. They are still insisting, “We know of no such document.”

Nouvel exposé de Seymour Hersh : la Turquie a organisée des attaques au gaz pour provoquer une guerre des États-Unis contre la Syrie
Par Patrick Martin
8 avril 2014
►https://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2014/avr2014/hers-a08.shtml

Ce rapport de Hersh est son second exposé long en quatre mois sur l’attaque au gaz à Damas qui a été faussement présentée. Les deux articles ont été publiés dans ce journal britannique parce qu’aucun grand journal ou magazine américain ne veut publier d’articles de ce journaliste qui a obtenu le prix Pulitzer.

Depuis son reportage sur le massacre de My Lai au Vietnam pour le New York Times, Hersh s’est spécialisé dans le développement de sources dans l’appareil militaire et des services de renseignements américains, fréquemment celles qui ont des divergences politiques avec le gouvernement en place à Washington. Hersh a quitté le Times pour Newsday et a ensuite écrit pour le New Yorker pendant de nombreuses années.

Le New Yorker et le Washington Post ont tout deux refusé de publier son premier article sur l’attaque au gaz à Ghouta, qui imputait l’attaque aux rebelles syriens du Front Al-Nusra, forçant Hersh à trouver un éditeur britannique pour son rapport. La presse américaine a été largement silencieuse sur celui-ci et a pour le moment tait cette dernière révélation.

(Article original paru le 7 avril 2014)