We can indulge ourselves in another smirk of superiority as the New Yorker publishes the newest work of speculation by journalist Seymour Hersh. Roger L. Simon has his number:
In his latest New Yorker entry “Preparing the Battlefield” [in Iran] Seymour Hersh seems to be competing for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the greatest numbers of anonymous sources in one article. The first sentence alone presents a trifecta of the unnamed: “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.”
They are never identified.
UPDATE: Looks like I have been altogether too lenient with Hersh. Michael Ledeen of PajamasMedia cuts him NO SLACK in an article that starts with these words: "Once again Seymour Hersh wastes our time with an essay that would have been more suitable for a psychiatrist’s couch, accompanied by the question, 'Doctor, why do I keep making up these things?'”...
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