Read this: “Hersh summarizes his mission as ‘to hold the people in public office to the highest possible standard of decency and of honesty… to tolerate anything less, even in the name of national security, is wrong.’ He tries his best. More than any other U.S. journalist alive today, he embodies the statement that ‘a patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government,’ a belief defined by the conservationist Edward Abbey.”
Or this, “My government has a secret unit that since December of 2001 has been disappearing people just like the Brazilians and the Argentineans did. Rumsfeld decided after 9/11 that he could not wait. The president signed a secret document…There’s a team of people, they fly in unmarked planes, they fly in Gulfstreams, they have their own choppers, they don’t carry American passports, and they just grab people. And maybe in the beginning I can understand there was some rationale. Right after 9/11 we were frightened, we didn’t know what to do …”
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of the Iraq quagmire and the war on terror
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reading his book “Chain of Command”–one of the better journalists covering the current
crisis.
Also, read the story on Bush in this week’s NY Times Magazine–quite disturbing
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