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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.

— Seymour Hersh The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy (1991)

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I want the American people to stop believing everything they hear and to ask more questions, to become more skeptical.

In the immediate aftermath of the pipeline bombing, the American media treated it like an unsolved mystery.

The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple.

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media, The Guardian (2013)

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