Seymour Hersh continues to show what a real journalist looks like. He can
speak truth to power like nobody else.
"The bad news," investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told a Montreal audience last Wednesday, "is that there are 816 days left in the reign of King George II of America." The good news? "When we wake up tomorrow morning, there will be one less day."
The list of our government's malfeasance that he has exposed is a growing list of shame, but also a glowing beacon of the power of a free press.
Since his 1969 expose of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, which is widely believed to have helped turn American public opinion against the Vietnam War, he has broken news about the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia, covert C.I.A. attempts to overthrow Chilean president Salvador Allende, and, more recently, the first details about American soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
His next expose?
"...there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."
Sooner would be better, Seymour.
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