Heads Up! Sy Hersh on CNN Late Edition

[nostamj]

also chalabi (feh)

but Hersh is a must see. shame there's no way to block Wolfie

[LittleApple81]

1. Are you planning to report for those of us with no access to CNN?

please.

[LittleApple81]

3. Call to Wonk: could you record it? I am forever grateful to you for all

the ones you have already provided for us, by the way.

[grasswire]

13. he says...

...that the important worry is that this administration refuses to listen to news they don't want to hear. He says they ignore the fact that they are picking a fight with more than a billion people by humiliating Arab males in sexual ways. The Arab world now views America as perverted and perverse.

[LittleApple81]

17. Thanks, Grasswire. Appreciate it. n/t

[maddezmom]

2. Sy has new article in New Yorker....

http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2

[LittleApple81]

4. Yeah. And that's where that picture of the naked Iraqi with the attack

dogs came from.

[OKNancy]

7. From the above article -

No amount of apologetic testimony or political spin last week could mask the fact that, since the attacks of September 11th, President Bush and his top aides have seen themselves as engaged in a war against terrorism in which the old rules did not apply. In the privacy of his office, Rumsfeld chafed over what he saw as the reluctance of senior Pentagon generals and admirals to act aggressively. By mid-2002, he and his senior aides were exchanging secret memorandums on modifying the culture of the military leaders and finding ways to encourage them “to take greater risks.” One memo spoke derisively of the generals in the Pentagon, and said, “Our prerequisite of perfection for ‘actionable intelligence’ has paralyzed us. We must accept that we may have to take action before every question can be answered.” The Defense Secretary was told that he should “break the ‘belt-and-suspenders’ mindset within today’s military . . . we ‘over-plan’ for every contingency. . . . We must be willing to accept the risks.” With operations involving the death of foreign enemies, the memo went on, the planning should not be carried out in the Pentagon: “The result will be decision by committee.”

[nostamj]

5. sorry, but no...

I'm no good at transcribing and I'm just listening in the background while doing some other research...

[maddezmom]

6. on now!!!

[seemslikeadream]

8. Diary of an interrogator: After a tough day's questioning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=542297&mesg_id=542297

good story here

[Dudley_DUright]

9. Seymour should just pick up his second Pulitzer right now

Very powerful stuff.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Seymour Hersh is a US national security asset.

He seems to be saying that this is bigger than My Lai, in strategic terms.

[greenman3610]

16. vote in poll on Rummy

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/late.edition/index.html

[LittleApple81]

18. I voted no, as over 88% of people have done. But their questions are BAD

satisfied: repugs might mean he was mistreated while we think he is a lyar and a coward.

[Paradise]

11. are these war crimes???

this appears to be much worse than we thought!

[AussieInCA]

12. bush/rummy: can't handle what they don't want to hear

this picked a fight with the islamic world.


It's like they want to reshuffle the seats on the titanic..this is a train wreck.

[TacticalPeek]

14. Can't handle the truth.

So to speak.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. WOW. This guy appears to be one of the few REAL JOURNALISTS

left in America. Got last week's New Yorker yesterday, guess I gotta go pick up this one now!

Talked about the USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS to humiliate and intimidate the prisoner. A pattern leading back to Afghanistan 2 years ago, demonstrated by the John Walker Lindh case. 60% of those in Abu Ghraib innnocent of ANYTHING, just picked up in sweeps (from Taguba report).