Seymour Hersh

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

Omid Memarian | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics


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.

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

Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2008 | 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...

One Way to Lower Gas Prices: Lay Off Iran

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


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.

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

David Bromwich | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics


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.

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

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home


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.

Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics


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.

Spitzer v. Fallon: Tales of a Prostituted Press

Marshall Grossman | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media


Marshall Grossman

What irks me most is that Spitzer's peccadillo pushed the real news right off the front page: the resignation of Navy Adm. William J. Fallon.

The Real News Network Questions Hillary on Iran

Paul Jay | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics


Paul Jay

Hillary's is a vote of support for all those involved with the Committee on the President Danger, which includes the likes of James Woolsey.

Sy Hersh at the New Yorker Festival, Part I

Glynnis MacNicol and Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.09.2007 | Media


Glynnis MacNicol and Rachel Sklar

New Yorker editor David Remnick interviewed the intense and dogged Seymour Hersh this past weekend during the New Yorker festival, who elaborated on h...

Who Wants To Bomb Iran? Democrats, Not Republicans, Says Seymour Hersh

Jon Wiener | Posted 10.04.2007 | Home


Jon Wiener

I recently spoke with legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Who wants to bomb Iran? According to Hersh, "Ironically there is a lot of pressure coming from Democrats."

In Media: WH Press Secretary Slams New Yorker's Hersh, Won't Respond To Claims

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.02.2007 | Home


White House Press Secretary Dana Perino yesterday cast aspersions on investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh and his anonymous sources -- but refused ...

WH Press Secretary Slams New Yorker's Hersh, Won't Respond To Claims

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.02.2007 | Media


White House Press Secretary Dana Perino yesterday cast aspersions on investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh and his anonymous sources -- but refused ...

Seymour Hersh: "Nobody In This Government Talks to me"

Jewish Journal | Brad A. Greenberg | Posted 09.24.2007 | Media


Journalist Seymour M. Hersh, 70, announced his arrival in Washington nearly four decades ago by uncovering the U.S. military massacre of Vietnames...