Interesting article
There is an interesting article in The Guardian about Seymour Hersh, one of the last of the real journalists, someone who represents a real thorn in the side of powerful people.
There is an interesting article in The Guardian about Seymour Hersh, one of the last of the real journalists, someone who represents a real thorn in the side of powerful people.
The part of the article that was most intriguing is this paragraph:
A Democrat who truly despises the Bush regime, he is reluctant to make predictions about exactly what is going to happen in the forthcoming election on the grounds that he might 'jinx it'. The unknown quantity of voter racism apart, however, he is hopeful that Obama will pull it off, and if he does, for Hersh this will be a starting gun. 'You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president's inauguration],' he says, with relish. '[They say:] "You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then." So that is what I'll do, so long as nothing awful happens before the inauguration.' He plans to write a book about the neocons and, though it won't change anything - 'They've got away with it, categorically; anyone who talks about prosecuting Bush and Cheney [for war crimes] is kidding themselves' - it will reveal how the White House 'set out to sabotage the system... It wasn't that they found ways to manipulate Congressional oversight; they had conversations about ending the right of Congress to intervene.'
It sounds like we're going to be getting an earful after January. I just wish these people would have shown more courage and come out while it still could change things.
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