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Joe Biden decided not to blow them up. It was in early June, five months into the war, but then, in September, he decided to do it.

— Seymour Hersh

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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)

I don’t think that Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers.

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