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2004-09-12 Home Front: WoT

Seymour Hersh Publishes Book About US Treatment of Captives

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-09-12 9:24:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In a statement posted on its Web site, the Pentagon said: "Based on media inquiries, it appears that Mr. Seymour Hershâs 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|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-09-12 9:50:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-12 10:35:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-12 3:06:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-12 3:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-12 4:33:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-12 6:20:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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