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Hersh also has a history of breaking stories that are true, like the My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib, and other things. This counterpoint writer has none of the yan
by MarkMarine 4y ago
Hersh also has a history of breaking stories that are true, like the My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib, and other things. This counterpoint writer has none of the yank that Hersh has.
Has Hersh slipped in his age? I don’t know. But this nameless IC cutout who wrote this story has basically no credibility. Why should anyone listen to him?
- ggm 4y agoHere's the Financial Times speculation. Russia, or the USA, or a Scandi country which is the USA because.. reasons. Said by Russians. Danes. Poles. Can't be natural. Must be sabotage. Could be from a boat. or a robot pig. Or 100kg of dynamite on the end of a 70m bit of string. You decide. Seymour is in the mix, sure. https://www.ft.com/content/294e441d-7b24-4144-a51f-75bdf70d723c https://www.ft.com/content/294e441d-7b24-4144-a51f-75bdf70d7...
- tptacek 4y agoAbu Ghraib was an important story, and Hersh's last real story. The cheese subsequently slipped off his cracker. The Vatican does not in fact secretly control US Special Forces Command. The good thing about this story is that you don't have to "believe" the author. It makes a series of falsifiable arguments about Hersh's story. Which of them do you contest, and why? This isn't a duel of credibilities. This whole "IC cutout" thing says more about how you're looking at this issue than it does about the story itself.
- MarkMarine 4y agoWhat does “IC cutout” say about a Marine who is now a private citizen. How am I looking at this, precisely?
- astrange 4y agoCredit for Abu Ghraib should go to the person who told him about it, not to him. Did he do anything special there?