[Mo1]

Ritter says famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh kept it confidential

I'm still reading the article ... But wasn't Seymour Hersh the jerk that leaked the prison story?

[coffee260]

Yes! He also couldn't reveal one source of his while using all anonymous contacts.

[Howlin]

Yes.

[MizSterious]

I think it was--plus Hersh really did his best to trash the Swifties.

[BigSkyFreeper]

But shocking evidence demonstrates that controversial former U.S. Marine and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who now writes for the anti-American Arab "news" organization Al Jazeera, was involved in a controversial effort to stop the war by enlisting prominent personalities in a "peace" campaign.

Treasonous, repugnant scum.

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I'm still reading the article ... But wasn't Seymour Hersh the jerk that leaked the prison story?

He sure did, lookee here:

"Hersh currently contributes regularly to The New Yorker on military and security matters. A 2004 article investigated exactly how Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circumvented the normal intelligence analysis function of the CIA in their quest to make a case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His coverage of Richard Perle in another article, Lunch with the Chairman, led Perle to say that Hersh was the "closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist." Perle publicly threatened to sue Hersh for libel in England where the standard of proof is much lower, but failed to file suit before the statute of limitations ran out."

"In May 2004, Hersh published a series of articles describing and showing with photos the torture by US military police of prisoners in the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib. There are allegations that private contractors contributed to them as well and that intelligence such as the CIA ordered them in order to break prisoners for interrogations. It is said to be a usual practice in other US prisons as well, e.g. in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Hersh went on to publish an article claiming that the abuses were part of a secret interrogations program, known as "Copper Green", expanded to Iraq with the direct approval of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an attempt to deal with the growing insurgency there...." - Source: Wikipedia

[prairiebreeze]

But wasn't Seymour Hersh the jerk that leaked the prison story?

I believe that's correct. He had a big history with covering the Mei Lai (sp) incident too.

[windchime]

"But wasn't Seymour Hersh the jerk that leaked the prison story?"

Hersh fingerprints are everywhere.  From Backhoe's files, The Uranium Files- Iraq, Mr. Bush... and more-
:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946281/posts

WHO LIED TO WHOM? (The Original Seymour Hersh Article About Uranium and Niger That Started It All!)
The New Yorker ^ | March 31, 2003 | Seymour M. Hersh

This seems to have been the first "mainstream" media attack on the Bush Administration regarding the Sixteen Words. I post it both for the sake of historical preservation, and in the hopes that someone here may be able to use the data within to trace how the RATS and the rest of the news media twisted and distorted he truth to create the giant nonevent that has the whole press corps salivating today.
Let's go with 16 WORDS