Yeah, not ideal, but he does link to Seymour Hersh’s investigation, which I read when it came out a while back, and found it to be comprehensive and pretty convincing. Unfortunately it looks like Hersh’s article is behind a paywall now, which really sucks.
At the time (last February) I was genuinely surprised that it wasn’t being covered in the mainstream media with any substance, and then I started seeing the more recent reports this article mentions, that just uncritically parrot the US government’s official line. Something is very clearly out of place, and it seems like the major players are just hoping the world forgets and moves on, which it basically has.
I thought blindly publishing the Bush administration’s lies about the Iraq war was supposed to have taught the mainstream media a lesson about accepting convenient messaging without doing a proper independent investigation.
Even Hersh’s article lacks any kind of supporting evidence, only siting a single unidentified source. His story is plausible, but plausible does not mean true.
Hersh’s story is ridiculed for a reason, it relies on a single unidentified source. I.e. he could have literally made it all up, or, that source could be an intelligence agent for who knows what country, or just some guy on an ego trip, or it could be legitimate, but there’s no evidence anywhere else that corroborates any part of his story. Good journalists usually corroborate a source’s story rather than publishing it on blind faith.
Yeah, not ideal, but he does link to Seymour Hersh’s investigation, which I read when it came out a while back, and found it to be comprehensive and pretty convincing. Unfortunately it looks like Hersh’s article is behind a paywall now, which really sucks.
At the time (last February) I was genuinely surprised that it wasn’t being covered in the mainstream media with any substance, and then I started seeing the more recent reports this article mentions, that just uncritically parrot the US government’s official line. Something is very clearly out of place, and it seems like the major players are just hoping the world forgets and moves on, which it basically has.
I thought blindly publishing the Bush administration’s lies about the Iraq war was supposed to have taught the mainstream media a lesson about accepting convenient messaging without doing a proper independent investigation.
Even Hersh’s article lacks any kind of supporting evidence, only siting a single unidentified source. His story is plausible, but plausible does not mean true.
Hersh’s story is ridiculed for a reason, it relies on a single unidentified source. I.e. he could have literally made it all up, or, that source could be an intelligence agent for who knows what country, or just some guy on an ego trip, or it could be legitimate, but there’s no evidence anywhere else that corroborates any part of his story. Good journalists usually corroborate a source’s story rather than publishing it on blind faith.