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...
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
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.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
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...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.
The Daily Beast | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
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...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Mike Malloy | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
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 ...
David Fiderer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
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.
Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
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?
Leslie Griffith | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
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.
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
Resolution of the Golan Heights problem could lead to a settlement of other thorny issues that are part of the Middle East process.
Think Progress | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
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...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
What if there were a small city whose entire purpose for existing was to promote education for an entire country?
Think Progress | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
During a speech at the University of Minnesota last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that the Bush administration had employed "an e...
Will Menaker | Posted 04.13.2009 | Comedy
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.
MinnPost | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
At a "Great Conversations" event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more...
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 01.16.2009 | World
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.
The Guardian | Rachel Cooke | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
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...
Omid Memarian | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
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.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
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...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
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.
David Bromwich | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
"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.
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.06.2008 | Home
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.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
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.
Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino yesterday cast aspersions on investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh and his anonymous sources -- but refused ...
New Yorker | Seymour Hersh | Posted 11.08.2009 | World