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The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now
What's going on [with journalists]?... Too much of it seems to me is looking for prizes. It's journalism looking for the Pulitzer Prize...
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media, The Guardian (2013)
Over the next few weeks, members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline....
No major American newspaper dug into the earlier threats to the pipelines made by Biden and Undersecretary of State Nuland.
I’m at my best when I swig cheap bourbon with the servicemen, work over the first-year law firm associates for intel, or swap stories with the junior minister from a country most people can’t name.
If the attack were traceable to the United States, "It’s an act of war."...
It’s going to undercut NATO, which I always found to be supremely useless
It dates back to my breakthrough story: the My Lai massacre revelation... Editors... wanted nothing to do with a story about a massacre committed by American soldiers.
I think we got caught up in something that won't work, the war won't end well for this government.
America's policy toward the Israeli arsenal, as we have seen in this book, was not just one of benign neglect: it was a conscious policy of ignoring reality.
The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy (1991)
I don’t think there’s any chance that Putin wants to take over Europe. I don’t think he wants to take — he wants to have Ukraine tamed, but he’s not interested in doing anything more.
The world has taken a very bizarre turn. I also — you know, it doesn’t matter what I think.
Pentagon officials, in turn, accuse Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, of a loss of nerve.
With regard to the attack on Iraq, not everyone on the inside is sure that the President can get what he wants: a successful overthrow with few American casualties and a new, pro-Western regime.
"The central American premise is that you deal with Iraq and everything else will fall in place," said Geoffrey Kemp, the N.S.C.'s ranking expert
I know people that are paying five times as much now for electricity. People are paying three or four times more for gas. There’s not enough of it. It’s very expensive.