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| − | '''Seymour Hersh''' is an American investigative journalist and regular contributor to the ''New Yorker''. | + | '''Seymour Hersh''' is an American investigative journalist and regular contributor to the ''New Yorker''. He has won a Pulitzer prize in addition to various other awards for his work.<ref>http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/18/hersh/index.html</ref> |
He is perhaps best known for covering the [[My Lai]] incident during the [[Vietnam]] war as well as the US prisoner abuse at [[Abu Ghraib]] in [[Iraq]]. | He is perhaps best known for covering the [[My Lai]] incident during the [[Vietnam]] war as well as the US prisoner abuse at [[Abu Ghraib]] in [[Iraq]]. | ||
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In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the ''London Review of Books'' alleging that [[Barack Obama]] had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of [[Osama Bin Laden]].<ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Seymour M. Hersh "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," ''London Review of Books,'' volume 37, number 10, 21 May 2015]</ref> | In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the ''London Review of Books'' alleging that [[Barack Obama]] had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of [[Osama Bin Laden]].<ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden Seymour M. Hersh "The Killing of Osama bin Laden," ''London Review of Books,'' volume 37, number 10, 21 May 2015]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 21:52, February 8, 2023
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has won a Pulitzer prize in addition to various other awards for his work.[1]
He is perhaps best known for covering the My Lai incident during the Vietnam war as well as the US prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
In 2015, Hersh wrote an article for the London Review of Books alleging that Barack Obama had lied about the circumstances surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden.[2]
Criticism
According to Jonathon Pollard, Hersh has a "long history of visceral anti-Americanism, which resonates with the journalistic elite." [3] Pollard was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act in 1987 after pleading guilty to selling numerous closely guarded state secrets, including the National Security Agency's ten-volume manual on how the U.S. gathers its signal intelligence, and disclosed the names of thousands of people who had cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies.