Hersh Vindicated? Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story On False Flag Sarin Attack In Syria

Two deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have claimed that the government is against investigating Turkey’s role in sending toxic sarin gas which was used in an attack on civilians in Syria in 2013 and in which over 1,300 Syrians were killed.

Counter Punch
By Counter Punch
Ghouta Syria Feature photo

This is quite the bombshell delivered by two CHP deputies in the Turkish parliament and reported by Today’s Zaman, one of the top dailies in Turkey. It supports Seymour Hersh’s reporting that the notorious sarin gas attack at Ghouta was a false flag orchestrated by Turkish intelligence in order to cross President Obama’s chemical weapons “red

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Evidence Of Alleged Sexual Abuse Against Underage Boys By US Soldiers At Abu Ghraib Remains Classified

Ten years after Seymour Hersh first made claims of horrifying video and audio evidence of rape of underage boys in Iraq, we still know very little about what really happened.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
In this Sept. 2, 2006, file photo, an Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell, in Abu Ghraib prison after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

WASHINGTON --- Over a decade ago, the renowned journalist Seymour Hersh made one of the most startling claims of his career: that the U.S. government possesses video and audio evidence proving that U.S. soldiers raped teenage boys in Iraq. Hersh, a journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam

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Analysis: Media Reaction To Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden Scoop ‘Disgraceful’

Barrels of ink have been spilled ripping apart Hersh’s character, while barely any follow-up reporting has been done to corroborate or refute his claims—even though there’s no doubt that the Obama administration has repeatedly misinformed and misled the public about the incident.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh.

Analysis by Columbia Journalism Review:  SEYMOUR HERSH HAS DONE THE PUBLIC a great service by breathing life into questions surrounding the official narrative of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Yet instead of trying to build off the details of his story, or to disprove his assertions with additional reporting, journalists have largely

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How Seymour Hersh Became One Of Today’s Greatest, Most Controversial Journalists

Unlike journalists who “trade their integrity for the access” to government sources, Hersh remains dedicated to pushing back against White House propaganda.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh.

At 78 years old, Seymour Hersh remains one of the most important, controversial, and even cutting-edge voices in journalism. His newest report, which criticizes the official narrative of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, is just one revelation in a long history of undermining government propaganda through investigative reporting. In

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Seymour Hersh: Benghazi Attack A Consequence Of Weapons “Rat-Line” To Syria

A veteran journalist presents a damning timeline of the lead up to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and alarming details of how the U.S. was feeding weapons to Syria.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Benghazi

More than 18 months after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, partisan in-fighting over the politicizing of the House investigation into the disaster seems to be picking up speed in Washington. Earlier this month, Reps. Adam

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Hersh, Higgins and MIT Rocket Scientists Weigh in on Syria Sarin Gas Attack

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, MIT professors and rocket scientists and blogger Elliot Higgins on the sarin gas attack that almost dragged the US into war in Syria.

Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
By Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
Syria Chemical Weapons Feature photo

It’s a story that has been framed many ways: the battle of an old-school journalist against a new media blogger; a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist now on the fringes of the journalistic community; and an American media that has again refused to buck the official White House line. Last week, the London Review of Books published Seymour Hersh’s

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