news.yahoo.com — FTA: "We have been pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight ... for covert operations in many areas of the Middle East where we ... want to stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence," he told CNN. "These are people connected to Al-Qaeda who want to take on Hezbollah"
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Closed AccountFeb 26, 2007
What's with the bulls**t hypnotoad3000? Hersh admits he changes events, dates and places in order to protect people, which is fair enough in the circles he travels in. From: <a class="user" href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/">http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/</a> :'“Sometimes I change events, dates, and places in a certain way to protect people,” Hersh told me. “I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.”And in bending the truth, Hersh is, paradoxically enough, remarkably candid. When he supplies unconfirmed accounts of military assaults on Iraqi civilians, or changes certain important details from an episode inside Abu Ghraib (thus rendering the story unverifiable), Hersh argues that he’s protecting the identities of sources who could face grave repercussions for talking. “I defend that totally,” Hersh says of the factual fudges he serves up in speeches and lectures. “I find that totally not inconsistent with anything I do professionally. I’m just communicating another reality that I know, that for a lot of reasons having to do with, basically, someone else’s ass, I’m not writing about it.”'If you can provide links for your your claims, please do so, else STFU.
rjmillsFeb 27, 2007Submitter
I'm kind of pissed. They probably changed the story because they thought they'd made a mistake. (Maybe they saw the Digg traffic and looked to see what everyone was going nuts about.) Maybe they did make a mistake. But they didn't print anything to that effect. The simply changed the original article without notice. They could have at least printed a "correction" of some sort. Now it either looks like a conspiracy or I'm an idiot. (Thank God I copied and pasted the original quote.)For the record, the original quote was somewhere around the "spreading the money around" quote. If there's anyone who remembers reading the original quote, please chime in and say so so I don't look like a complete dumbass. And Yahoo News, not cool or ethical.
geekeeFeb 27, 2007
Headline is inaccurate.
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2007
Uh, I have one comment in that entire article, and I'm hardly "agreeing with them"...
yuravianFeb 27, 2007
"2. "We have always been at peace with Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda are our allies. To think otherwise is to be mistaken."Another amazing statement. Is Al-Qaeda's whole "Death to America" slogan just a cover up so the world thinks they hate the U.S. when in reality, Bush is having dinner with Bin Laden in Pakistan once a week?"*cough*read1984*cough*
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2007
Since when is selling weapons to our nation's enemies business as usual? I refuse to blame my parents, grandparents etc. for the government not forcing these companies to stop and prosecuting those responsible for treason.
littlebylittleMar 8, 2007
Unreal.