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And he got exactly the same reaction when he published the Abu Ghraib story. The Pentagon called it nonsense.
by pydry 4y ago
And he got exactly the same reaction when he published the Abu Ghraib story. The Pentagon called it nonsense.
- BryantD 4y agoThat seems like a risky rubric. Are we to conclude that anything the Pentagon denies is true?
- Natsu 4y agoThat would actually be really interesting if someone tried to comprehensively go through past Pentagon denials and see how truthful they've been for the cases we're able to actually adjudicate one way or another these days.
- djur 4y agoWhere 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/index.html 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.