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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Seymour Hersh: Can An Unstable Pakistan Keep Safe Its Nuclear Arsenal?

New Yorker | Seymour Hersh | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: America and Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, Seymour Hersh, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, World News

In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army's ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pak...

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"Lessons in Disaster": If Obama Caves to the Pentagon, He's No Jack Kennedy

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Vietnam, Lessons in Disaster, Afghanistan Escalation, Afghanistan, Washington Post, Joe Biden, Seymour Hersh, Wall Street Journal, Afghanistan War, Gordon Goldstein, Barack Obama, Mcchrystal, World News
Robert Naiman

You don't have to be a dove to understand what President Kennedy understood: putting U.S. troops on the ground somewhere doesn't automatically make you more powerful.

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Seymour Hersh: Military Is Waging War Against The White House

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Military Commanders, War in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Duke University Lecture, Military Brass, Seymour Hersh, Afghanistan War, Politics News

In addition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military is also fighting a war against the Obama administration at the White House...

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The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Billy Waugh, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Wesley Clark, CIA Assassination, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Senate Intelligence Committee, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Steve Coll, House Intelligence Committee, Cheney Assassination Ring, Cia, Cofer Black, Moammar Gadhafi, Jimmy Carter, Assassination, Slobodan Milosovic, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.

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Seymour Hersh Stands By Reporting On Cheney Assassination Squad

The Daily Beast | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Seymour Hersh, Cheney Assassination Squad, State Secrets, Dick Cheney, CIA Torture, Torture, Politics News

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh was mocked in March when he referred to Dick Cheney's secret squad of CIA assassins. Now, he talks to the Daily Beast a...

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When it Comes to Torture, No One is Above the Law

John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture Photos, Seymour Hersh, Antonio Taguba, President Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Rule of Law, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

American law is clear as to what constitutes torture. Those within the Bush administration who sanctioned torture, deliberately and unapologetically violated U.S. law and must be held responsible.

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"Sadistic . . . violent . . . inhuman"

Mike Malloy | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Seymour Hersh, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Home News
Mike Malloy

They must be horrific. So violent, in fact, so obscene, so counter to even the basic tenets of human decency that President Barack Obama sought today ...

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The Levin Report Prompts A Second Look At Other Bush-Era Whitewashes

David Fiderer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Armed Services Committee Report, 60 Minutes, Antonio Taguba, Rachel Maddow, David Brooks, Donald Rumsfeld, Geoffrey Miller, Frank Rich, Seymour Hersh, Carl Levin, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
David Fiderer

The story of Taguba's report reflects a truism applicable to every investigation: When large swaths of information are declared off limits, the resulting work product may be fatally flawed.

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Torture, American-Style

Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Iraq War, Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment, Cia, Prison, Cruel-and-Unusual, Punishment, Jail, Darius Rejali, Iraq, Mark Danner, Seymour Hersh, Bybee Memo, Torture, Abu Ghraib, World News
Anne-Marie Cusac

What astonished me was not the Abu Ghraib torture, but the public's shock and dismay. How could people be so surprised when so many of the same practices had already happened here?

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Cheney's Toys

Leslie Griffith | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Malevolent Meddling, Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney, John F. Kennedy, Isreal-Palestine Relations, Jack Kennedy, Obama and Kennedy, Obama-Kennedy Similarities, Cheney, Palestine, Middle Eastern Conflict, Isreal, Cuba Bay of Pigs, Middle East, John Kennedy, Middle East Conflict, President Kennedy, Cuba, Vice President Cheney, Bay of Pigs, Politics News
Leslie Griffith

We all remember conniving against a democratically-elected president ended in 1963. And we hear comparisons between the young, vibrant JFK and Obama. May the parallels end there.

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News From the Muddled East

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: India, New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Golan Heights, Frank Stanton, Middle East, Israel, Syria, Kashmir, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Murray Fromson

Resolution of the Golan Heights problem could lead to a settlement of other thorny issues that are part of the Middle East process.

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Cheney May Have Mole In Obama Government: Sy Hersh

Think Progress | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheney, Hersh, Cheney Mole, Sy Hersh, Burrowing In, Bush Burrowing, Seymour Hersh, Cheney Burrowers, Bush Administration Burrowing, Dick Cheney, Politics News

In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday, host Terry Gross asked investigative journalist Seymour Hersh if, as he continues to investigate the Bus...

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Unlike Dubai, Doha Puts Education First, Stresses Collaboration (VIDEO)

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Abu Dhabi, Education City, Northwestern University, Education, Doha, Qatar, Seymour Hersh, Mira Nair, Michigan State University, Dubai, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

What if there were a small city whose entire purpose for existing was to promote education for an entire country?

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O'Reilly: If Cheney Had An "Assassination Squad" Seymour Hersh Would Be Dead

Think Progress | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics

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During a speech at the University of Minnesota last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that the Bush administration had employed "an e...

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Sy Hersh: Cheney Ran Secret "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad"

Will Menaker | Posted 04.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Will Menaker

When pressed for details, Hersh said that his sources described the program as consisting of between 5 and 6 female agents who worked solely under the Vice President's authority performing hits all over the globe.

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"Executive Assassination Ring" Reported To Cheney, Says Sy Hersh

MinnPost | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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At a "Great Conversations" event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more...

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Shoe Fetishism...The Arab Way!

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Shoe Fetish, Journalist, Iraq, Media, Facebook, Wikipedia, Seymour Hersh, Abu Ghraib, Shoe Tossing, The Dark Knight, Arab, Middle East, Nikita Khrushchev, Sy Hersh, Muntazer Al-Zaidi, Shoe, World News
Faisal J. Abbas

If our journalists in the Arab world were as good at investigating and writing stories as they were in shoe tossing, we would have perhaps uncovered a whole series of Abu Ghraibs or even more horrific stories.

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Seymour Hersh Profile In The Guardian

The Guardian | Rachel Cooke | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media

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Every so often, a famous actor or producer will contact Seymour Hersh, wanting to make a movie about his most famous story: his single-handed uncoveri...

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Georgia-Russia Conflict: Moscow Challenges America's Global and Regional Authority

Omid Memarian | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Double Standard, Democracy, Zimbabwe, United Nations, Iraq, China, Russia Georgia War, Seymour Hersh, France, The United States, Iran, Latine America. Foriegn Policy, Georgia, Russia, Israel, Khalilzad, Churkin, Politics News
Omid Memarian

One of the lessons the U.S. could learn from the conflict is that America is no longer the most effective nation when it comes to interfering, influencing and finally resolving conflicts among nations.

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Hersh: Cheney's Office Considered Disguising Navy Seals As Iranians To Provoke War

Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, New Yorker, War With Iran, Iran, Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh recently told Think Progress that a recent meeting in Vice President Cheney's office on the t...

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One Way to Lower Gas Prices: Lay Off Iran

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Crude Oil Prices, Seymour Hersh, Ethnic Tensions, Oil Prices, Oil, Iran, Tehran, Israel, Dick Cheney, Gas Prices, Gas, War With Iran, Sy Hersh Iran, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

For the love of cheap gas, shut up, already. Let's stop with this nonsense about us or the Israelis launching a preemptive strike against Iran.

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Congress to Bush and Cheney: Do What You Want in Iran

David Bromwich | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Iran the New Yorker, War With Iran, Iran, The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, Seymour Hersh Iran, Dick Cheney, Politics News
David Bromwich

"The process is broken," one of Seymour Hersh's informants told him, "and this is dangerous stuff we're authorizing." Yet the Democrats may think that what they don't know can't hurt them at the polls.

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McClellan's Inconvenient Truths: Media And GOP Flacks Pile-On

Beverly Davis | Posted 06.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill Clinton, Abc, White House, Gop, John McCain, Karl Rove, The New Yorker, Matt Lauer, Scott Mcclellan, Ari Fleischer, Nbc, Dan Bartlett, Cbs, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Bush, Mcclellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong With Washington, Katie Couric, Iraq War, Today Show, Hillary Clinton, Kael Kransy, Kqed, Charles Gibson, Press White House Iraq, Press White House, Mcclellan Press, Media Iraq, Home News
Beverly Davis

As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Wmds, George W. Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Seymour Hersh, Bashar Al-Assad, Foreign Policy, National Security, Plutonium, Nuclear Facility, Uranium, Israel, Arms Control Wonk, North Korea, Wmd, Cheney Iraq WMD, Syria WMD, Iraq WMD, Sigint, Dick Cheney Iraq, Chernobyl, Dick Cheney, Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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