Major US Outlets Found Hersh’s Nord Stream Scoop Too Hot to Handle
By every journalistic standard, the extensive international coverage given to Hersh’s story should have made it big news in the US.
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By every journalistic standard, the extensive international coverage given to Hersh’s story should have made it big news in the US.


A new piece by veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh argues that the Obama administration’s case against Syria over a sarin gas attack last August relied on cherry-picked intelligence.


Seymour Hersh reports in the New Yorker (6/6/11–subscription required) that there is s virtually no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program, despite huge efforts on the part of the U.S. to prove otherwise. Though Hersh’s findings do not contradict the past two National Intelligence Estimates, they do fly in the face of long-held official […]

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