articles by Seymour Hersh

It is hard to make sense of that. In fact, it is hard to make sense of a lot of nontechnical features of the Israeli story. Even to the layman with no technical knowledge of enrichment or nuclear reactors, a number of features made no sense. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh picked up on these nontechnical ...

A number of nontechnical features just didn't fit the Israeli story. Seymour Hersh picked this up in his early investigative reporting of the strike, “A Strike in the Dark.” A former State Department intelligence expert told Hersh that much that one would see around a nuclear reactor was missing from the site.

Fifty years ago this weekend, the focus of the Vietnam war dramatically changed. Many Americans were skeptical of why the war was necessary. There were scattered reports of American soldiers killing innocent civilians. But some would argue bad things can happen during wartime, and that's the price a ...

A critic of both the Democratic and Republican establishment, he attracted attention in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election when he wrote a scathing and controversial column titled “It's Time to Dump Trump,” and implored members of the Republican party to drop the controversial and ...

The U.S. military attempted to cover-up what happened and would have succeeded but for the persistence of a young reporter, Seymour Hersh. The soldiers raped the women, mutilated their bodies and torched their houses One U.S. soldier said he was ordered to “kill anything that breathed.” During the ...

The operation became public knowledge in 1976 when Seymour Hersh, a New York Times journalist, wrote an article about the non-consensual experiments. The next year, with a growing distrust of the government in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, President Gerald Ford created the United States ...

Shortly after Calley had been charged, Seymour Hersh, a freelance reporter and former news aide to antiwar presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, ... Hersh's article prompted front page stories in The Washington Post and The New York Times, and contributed to the swelling anger against President ...

The U.S. military attempted to cover-up what happened and would have succeeded but for the persistence of a young reporter, Seymour Hersh. The soldiers raped the women, mutilated their bodies and torched their houses One U.S. soldier said he was ordered to “kill anything that breathed.” During the ...

At first the Army tried to cover it up, but journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story in November of 1969. Now it's part of the curriculum at the military service academies. Air Force Maj. Logan Sisson teaches ethics at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He shows his students a picture he took with ...

In the end, Crowley is a mystery and a contradiction, and the facts we try to attach to his story can sometimes feel as tenuous as the ones he clung to as he ... would ever imagine possible and roped in players that you could never have imagined without his efforts, including Seymour Hersh and Gerald Ford.

Joel and Mary Rich accuse Fox News, its reporter and a periodic commentator of “extreme and outrageous” conduct for the May 2017 story on death of their ... The backdrop involved Butowsky's efforts to draw upon reporting by Seymour Hersh and his White House meeting with former Trump administration ...

The backdrop involved Butowsky's efforts to draw upon reporting by Seymour Hersh and his White House meeting with former Trump administration spokesman Sean Spicer, as NPR later detailed. The original Fox News story cited a federal investigator who had seen an FBI forensic report said to detail ...

In the wake of the Watergate crisis and the forced resignation of President Richard Nixon, reporter Seymour Hersh published the first devastating ... like LSD; Operation Mockingbird, in which the CIA recruited journalists to plant stories and smear opponents; Operation Chaos, an effort to spy on the antiwar ...

He was either a casualty of a sadistic LSD experiment by the U.S. government, or — as wily investigative journalist Seymour Hersh insists — of an outright ... To tell a story of sloshed, tripping, paranoid, self-important and delusional midcentury CIA chain-smokers in the straitened “Frontline” style would be ...

The events at My Lai were covered up by high-ranking army officers until investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story. Soon, My Lai was front-page news and an international scandal. Sgt. Ron Haeberle, a U.S. Army photographer attached to Charlie Company, documented the events both on his ...

He was either a casualty of a sadistic LSD experiment by the U.S. government, or — as wily investigative journalist Seymour Hersh insists — of an outright ... To tell a story of sloshed, tripping, paranoid, self-important and delusional midcentury CIA chain-smokers in the straitened "Frontline" style would be ...

Occasionally a news analyst will take it upon himself/herself to write an article resulting from his/her investigative reporting on happenings in a warzone ... This happened to Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh when two of his articles on the war in Syria in the last four years could not find a publisher in the ...

Occasionally a news analyst will take it upon himself/herself to write an article resulting from his/her investigative reporting on happenings in a warzone ... This happened to Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh when two of his articles on the war in Syria in the last four years could not find a publisher in the ...

The history of My Lai was first chronicled by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in a series of news articles forming the basis of his 1970 book My Lai 4: A Report on ... This dramatic story, written by composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman, is told through Thompson's perspective.

Seymour Hersh, then a relentless freelance reporter, broke the story after tracking down and interviewing soldiers, including Calley, about the mass killing. Hersh received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting without ever leaving the United States. Calley, who is still living, publicly apologized in ...

In 2015, Seymour Hersh published “The Killing of Osama bin Laden” in the London Review of Books. ... Hollywood had already made multiple movies out of the story, including Kathryn Bigelow's prestigious, expensive, Oscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty, and the political machine had long since given it the ...

The hero in both of these stories was the press. In 1974, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh broke the story about the CIA launching a domestic intelligence operation against anti-war protesters during the Nixon administration. Look it up, because it's some scary stuff. It was during this investigation ...

13, 1969, when Seymour Hersh broke the story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after interviewing some of those involved. The story ... “I received that first report with some skepticism, but in the following months, I was to hear similar stories from such a wide variety of people that it became impossible for me to ...

“I received that first report with some skepticism, but in the following months, I was to hear similar stories from such a wide variety of people that it became impossible for me to disbelieve that something rather dark and bloody did indeed occur sometime in March, 1968, in a village called 'Pinkville' in the ...

One surprising real-life subplot concerns famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who broke the My Lai story and countless others and covered the Olson story as a young journalist. Badgered for help from Eric, Hersh reluctantly sits before Morris's camera but comes across as elusive and defensive, ...