[logician2u]

You think some neoconservative (Max Boot, possibly?) is going to be less an ideologue?

There's always a slant, which you have to take into account. What's upsetting is when some so-called journalist conveniently forgets to check primary sources and, instead, uses the "unnamed officials" ruse.

At least Hersh (sorry, I misspelled his name before) comes closer than most to naming names, which is, of course, a sure way to lose story sources when dealing with sensitive national security matters. And in his long career as a reporter, he must have a pretty good file of contacts by now.

[Burkeman1]

I pretty much question the resolve on conservative cultural issues that NeoCons once said they had. They jettison those concerns pretty fast for WAR instead (Read Golberg and Frum of National Review on "gay" rights and abortion recently.)

I don't dismiss all Left wing writers as inherent liars. That would be the act of an ideolouge and to be conservative is to, above all things, not be an ideolouge! But I am skeptical of an author like Hersh who always seemed to defend a regime like the Soviet Union and their minions during the Cold War.