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| Seymour Hersh Publishes Book About US Treatment of Captives | |
| 2004-09-12 | |
| From The New York Times .... Seymour M. Hersh, a writer for The New Yorker who earlier this year was among the first to disclose details of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, [is publishing a book titled] Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (HarperCollins), which is being released Monday. .... Mr. Hersh asserts that a Central Intelligence Agency analyst who visited the detention center at Guantänamo Bay, Cuba, in the late summer of 2002 filed a report of abuses there that drew the attention of Gen. John A. Gordon, a deputy to Condoleezza Rice, the White House national security adviser. .... Although a number of senior officials were briefed on the analyst's findings of abuse, the high-level White House meeting did not "dwell on" that question, but rather focused on whether some of the prisoners should not have been held at all, the book says. .... Mr. Hersh also says that a military officer involved in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq learned of the abuses at Abu Ghraib in November and reported it to two of his superiors, Gen. John P. Abizaid, the regional commander, and his deputy, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith. .... But Capt. Hal Pittman, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement Saturday, "General Abizaid does not recall any officer discussing with him any specific cases of abuse at Abu Ghraib prior to January 2004, nor do any of the officers of the Centcom staff who travel with him." Mr. Hersh also says that F.B.I. agents complained to their superiors about abuses at Guantänamo, as did a military lawyer, and that those complaints, too, were relayed to the Pentagon. Mr. Hersh's thesis is that "the roots of the Abu Ghraib scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists" who have been charged so far, "but in the reliance of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on secret operations and the use of coercion - and eye-for-eye retribution - in fighting terrorism." .... In a statement posted on its Web site, the Pentagon said: "Based on media inquiries, it appears that Mr. Seymour Hersh's upcoming book apparently contains many of the numerous unsubstantiated allegations and inaccuracies which he has made in the past based upon unnamed sources." .....
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| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #6 Someday, a clever writer could write a book about all the crap Hersch has gotten wrong over the years. My favorite, certainly not his most egregious error though, was when he was caught in the middle of a forged love letters scandal between President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. The only problem was the letters had zip codes which didn't exist before Marilyn's death. D'oh! Seriously though, I think anyone who has a constant need to tear down their spouse, their family, their nation is kinda twisted. Sy is very twisted. |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-09-12 6:20:33 PM |
| #5 It's Seymour "Call me Jim Jones of the Left" Hersh. Hersh is only jealous that he was not in the middle of the pile of Iraqui prisoners. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-09-12 4:33:56 PM |
| #4 Write another evil America book, Sy. Reclaim your lefty icon status. Hit all the talk shows. Then go away. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-09-12 3:12:20 PM |
| #3 All this "unnamed sources" stuff is starting to wear thin. When I was in school, we had to cite sources and make footnotes and all that crap. Imagine the look of all those footnotes if all they said was "unknown source" and date. Ctrl+C Ctrl+V ad nausium. Frank, your visual......something else....... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-12 3:06:11 PM |
| #2 the koolaid drinkers here at home and the Murats of the world will lap this shit up (nice visual?). All Abu Grahib, all the time - to try and damage W. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-12 10:35:58 AM |
| #1 In a statement posted on its Web site, the Pentagon said: "Based on media inquiries, it appears that Mr. Seymour Hersh’s upcoming book apparently contains many of the numerous unsubstantiated allegations and inaccuracies which he has made in the past based upon unnamed sources." ..... Say it ain't so! A leftwing writer publishes allegations from unnamed sources? Has that ever hapened before? Has the NY Times ever parroted unsubstantiated allegations? My question here is: Why don;t the FBI agents and the military lawyer who saw these abuses go on the record? Why does Hersh think those three folks are protected by not revealing his sources? Finally, after the Killian memo hoax, and decades of John Kerry lying about Viet Nam, does Hersh, HaperCollins, NY Times, etc really expect me to believe that Hersh would not make up lies to sell a book and to make political gain? |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-12 9:50:35 AM |