Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by DeLeeuw on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:12PM
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For what it's worth, the Washington Post at least doubts it was Russia (december 2022): https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/21/...
Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by pydry on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:13PM
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And he got exactly the same reaction when he published the Abu Ghraib story. The Pentagon called it nonsense.
Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by BryantD on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:34PM
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That seems like a risky rubric. Are we to conclude that anything the Pentagon denies is true?
Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by Natsu on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:41PM
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Re:Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
by djur on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:58PM
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Where is your source for the Pentagon calling it nonsense? Here's George W. Bush publicly apologizing for the abuses on May 7, 2004:
https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/07/bush.apology/inde...
Hersh's New Yorker article was published April 30. His reporting was based on the Army's Taguba report, which leaked broadly in the first week of May. Other reporters had access to and reported on the leaked report. There's absolutely grounds to criticize the Pentagon in terms of its lack of transparency with regards to the report, but once the story was broken it was way too well-substantiated to outright deny.
Journalists during Bush Jr's era were solid. Post Obama, the entire profession couldn't handle not being the under dog.
And now we're paying the price with untrustworthy or outright made up "anonymous sources".