Seymour Hersh 
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the stories on the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. A former journalist for The New York Times, he is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. His eight books describe the secret culture of power in the United States. He has been awarded the George Polk Award, the Lennon-Ono Peace Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Sidney Hillman award, among others.
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Interviews
Rachel Cooke meets the "most-feared investigative reporter in Washington" in this interview, published October 19, 2008.
Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia and hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib...
New Yorker staff writer Seymour Hersh talks with David Remnick during the 2007 New Yorker Festival.
In this video footage, New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick introduces Hersh as "quite simply the greatest investigative journalist of his era... with the reporting energy of 16 hummingbirds locked in a cage but also, a rare thing, a moral sense." Hersh and Remnick discuss the war in Iraq and recent events abroad and at home.
Critical Review
Michael Ignatieff of The New York Times reviews Hersh's book, Chain of Command.
"Chain of Command is the best book we are likely to have, this close to events, about why the United States went from leading an international coalition, united in horror at the attacks of 9/11, to fighting alone in Iraq and, in Abu Ghraib, to violating the very human rights it said it had come to restore. According to Seymour M. Hersh, whose revelations this spring about the Abu Ghraib scandal have matched in impact his breaking of the My Lai story in 1969, this fatal declension was a direct consequence of presidential decisions taken long before combat in Iraq. The war on terror began as a defense of international law, giving America allies and friends. It soon became a war in defiance of law..."
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