He's been around a long time, a lone voice in the wilderness often enough. But he's still at it, Lord love 'im. I wonder if he'll be doing any work for Glenn Greenwald's new venture.
Though President Barack Obama eventually decided not to strike Syria, the administration made a public case for war by saying that Assad’s regime was responsible for a poison gas attack in the outskirts of Damascus. The U.N. later concluded the attack had involved the nerve agent sarin.
In his piece -- titled "Whose Sarin?" – [Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistSeymour] Hersh reported that al-Nusra, a jihadi group fighting in Syria’s long-running civil war, had also "mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity.” Therefore, he wrote, “Obama did not tell the whole story” when stating with certainty that Assad had to be responsible, thereby crossing a so-called "red line" that would trigger U.S. retaliation.
Well, what a surprise. And what a surprise that Hersh had a hard time finding anyone willing to publish the story.
Shawn Turner, spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, said in a statement to BuzzFeed that "any suggestion that there was an effort to suppress intelligence about a nonexistent alternative explanation is simply false.”
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Indeed, Hersh didn't seem particularly bothered by having to shop the story to different outlets, telling HuffPost over email that “these things happen on tough stories presented by a non-staff writer ... the way it goes ... freelancing is not for the faint of heart.”
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