Not a Conspiracy
In May, the London Review of Books published a 10,000-word exposé by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was widely read online, receiving...
Seymour Hersh
Slow Release
A few more documents from the bin Laden raid are finally revealed. They do not flatter the judgment of the Obama administration.
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Assad’s Ally Arrested
In Beirut last week, former Lebanese MP and cabinet member Michel Sa...
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Is ‘The Dictator’ Racist?
Even before it hit theaters, Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" - a gross-out parody of autocrats and the Western leftists who romanticize them - was met with cries that it's...
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Seymour Hersh’s ‘Justice’
Writing at BuzzFeed, my colleague James Kirchick informs readers...
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Seymour Hersh: Assassination Of JFK Was Form Of “Justice”
"There might have been some justice" in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said in a letter to a reader. Hersh made the shocki...
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The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...
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The Iranian Death Spiral Speeds Up
The picturesque city of Chabahar is right on the Gulf of Oman , and was supposed to become Iran's biggest and mos...
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Syriana
In the annals of “big policy ideas,” perhaps none has had as much staying power in the face of a dismal track record than the seemingly perpetual conviction that integrating Syria int...
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Who Is Leading On US-Mideast Policy?
In the past week, a new element was introduced into the unfolding and cacophonous saga of the Obama administration’s new Syria policy, namely the appearance of Senator John Kerry....
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Through Our Enemies’ Eyes
Enough about you; what did Mullah Omar think of Obama's West Point speech?
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Bashar Assad the Peacemaker? Think Again
Recent statements by the Syrian president indicate more of the same
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To Bomb, or Not to Bomb
WHEN I WAS RECENTLY in Paris, a French diplomat explained to me why he--and many others in the French foreign ministry--thought the United States would, in the end, bomb Iran's nuclear-weapo...
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Make Up Your Mind
The Left's national-security schizophrenia.
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Bad Press
This side of Dan Rather, no one has more cause for concern about fallout from CBS's scandalous document hoax than Seymour Hersh. For no journalist has benefited more from the decades-old jer...