Hersh does it with a corruption of scholarship perhaps unequalled in recent times.

hersh " His anti-war convictions came strictly through "O.J.T. -- on the job training. I was covering the Pentagon for AP and I'd go to lunch with officers. And what they said was that you had to be a professional liar. It was all about body counts. That's how they measure success in the military. So they would lie about it. It turned me against the war.""

Hersh: It's my thesis that most of the great foreign-policy issues are shaped not out of strategy, but out of personal vendettas.
And by the way, it's the most heinous process in the world: We have an Executive agency like the CIA today that will, if the President wants, do any act the President asks, and completely divorce the White House and the President from any responsibility or culpability if things go wrong.

Hersh: I think Bill Clinton is not vulnerable because of Monica Lewinsky. I think he's vulnerable because of what he's done to welfare, what he's done to the working class, what he's done to habeas corpus.

Where the Taliban and Usama bin Ladin are concerned, Pakistan and the United States aren't allies.

"The radical right has had an historic temper tantrum in the days following the Supreme Court's sodomy ruling, and that has led to a wave of calls and threats from the far right that have, I think, reached the White House doors,"
The new White House position also contradicts the statements by Vice President Dick Cheney -- whose lesbian daughter Mary stood with her partner on Bush's inaugural stand -- in the 2000 campaign.

But, as with the June C.I.A. report, the Administration kept quiet about the Pyongyang admission. It did not inform the public until October 16th, five days after Congress voted to authorize military force against Iraq.