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Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/25/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story/
SEYMOUR HERSH BLASTS MEDIA FOR UNCRITICALLY PROMOTING RUSSIAN HACKING STORY
Jeremy Scahill
January 25 2017, 6:29 a.m.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
Hersh denounced news organizations as crazy town for their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their track records of lying and misleading the public.
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Although critical of the Russia coverage, Hersh condemned the Trump administrations attacks on the news media and its threats to limit the ability of journalists to cover the White House. The attack on the press is straight out of national socialism, he said. You have to go back into the 1930s. The first thing you do is destroy the media. And whats he going to do? Hes going to intimidate them. The truth is, the First Amendment is an amazing thing and if you start trampling it the way they I hope they dont do it that way this would be really counterproductive. Hell be in trouble.
Hersh also said he is concerned about Trump and his administration assuming power over the vast surveillance resources of the U.S. government. I can tell you, my friends on the inside have already told me theres going to be a major increase in surveillance, a dramatic increase in domestic surveillance, he said. He recommended that anyone concerned about privacy use encrypted apps and other protective means. If you dont have Signal, you better get Signal.
While expressing fears about Trumps agenda, Hersh also called Trump a potential circuit breaker of the two-party political system in the U.S. The idea of somebody breaking things away, and raising grave doubts about the viability of the party system, particularly the Democratic Party, is not a bad idea, Hersh said. Thats something we could build on in the future. But we have to figure out what to do in the next few years. He added: I dont think the notion of democracy is ever going to be as tested as its going to be now.
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SEYMOUR HERSH BLASTS MEDIA FOR UNCRITICALLY PROMOTING RUSSIAN HACKING STORY
Jeremy Scahill
January 25 2017, 6:29 a.m.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
Hersh denounced news organizations as crazy town for their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their track records of lying and misleading the public.
<snip>
Although critical of the Russia coverage, Hersh condemned the Trump administrations attacks on the news media and its threats to limit the ability of journalists to cover the White House. The attack on the press is straight out of national socialism, he said. You have to go back into the 1930s. The first thing you do is destroy the media. And whats he going to do? Hes going to intimidate them. The truth is, the First Amendment is an amazing thing and if you start trampling it the way they I hope they dont do it that way this would be really counterproductive. Hell be in trouble.
Hersh also said he is concerned about Trump and his administration assuming power over the vast surveillance resources of the U.S. government. I can tell you, my friends on the inside have already told me theres going to be a major increase in surveillance, a dramatic increase in domestic surveillance, he said. He recommended that anyone concerned about privacy use encrypted apps and other protective means. If you dont have Signal, you better get Signal.
While expressing fears about Trumps agenda, Hersh also called Trump a potential circuit breaker of the two-party political system in the U.S. The idea of somebody breaking things away, and raising grave doubts about the viability of the party system, particularly the Democratic Party, is not a bad idea, Hersh said. Thats something we could build on in the future. But we have to figure out what to do in the next few years. He added: I dont think the notion of democracy is ever going to be as tested as its going to be now.
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Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story (Original Post)
bananas
Jan 2017
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BeyondGeography
(39,345 posts)1. Oh well, he officially resides in Crackpotville
At least with Trump he can dust off his Iran invasion stories. Might actually happen this time around. There's your "circuit breaker," Sy.
LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)2. SEYMOUR HERSH BLASTS MEDIA FOR UNCRITICALLY PROMOTING RUSSIAN HACKING STORY.
brush
(53,740 posts)3. What happened to him? Sigh!
He was once a well respected investigative reporter.
If he was skeptical of the Russian hacking story, why the hell didn't he do his job an INVESTIGATE it?
stonecutter357
(12,693 posts)4. SEYMOUR HERSH is full of shit just like putin and trump.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)5. Russia has a somewhat legit if bad for us excuse. Trump encouraging it doesn't.
Russia at most drew extra attention to the dark side of a candidate who wanted more military confrontation with Russia, which would be a matter of national security for them, especially since they have a much smaller and weaker military than ours.
Trump encouraging or coordinating WITH Russia is something else.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)6. If Dems have something, they should show it.