Hersh and Chomsky have been right more than they've been wrong, despite every single thing they've said being "obviously batshit crazy" according to the Informed Opinion of the moment.

Seymour Hersh is the Journalist/Investigative Reporter and he does not mess around.

Not just some 'substack'. I suspect some of the larger outlets would not publish it without source information etc and as I mentioned Seymour Hersh is well known for sticking to his word of "Not revealing sources".

That's appeal to authority. And it's a good hypothesis, we shouldn't discount it, but ... also not take it as gospel.

It's pretty clear that to get to the bottom of this we either need some leak or enough politicians in Congress who take this seriously, and get people to testify under oath. (Of course it'd be a good start to hold accountable those who lie to Congress, like Keith Alexander and James Clapper.)

Was someone able to verify that this was in fact written by him? I remember that being an open question when it got posted initially.

It may be interesting to read this[0] OSINT analysis of Hersh's claims.

[0] https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1626176420648026113

The burden of proof to counter one of the most respected investigative journalists in history is squarely on your shoulders.