Hersh's stories change history

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PASSIONATE WRITING: The reporter who broke the My Lai story found another example of brutal US misconduct against Iraqi prisoners

NEW YORK , NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Friday, May 21, 2004,Page 6

With his reports in 1969 of a massacre by young American soldiers at My Lai, Seymour Hersh began his run as one of journalism's best-known investigative reporters. But in spite of his longevity, none of his subsequent reportorial efforts has had the impact of his first.

Until now.

In less than a month, Hersh, 67, has written three articles in The New Yorker that have helped set the political agenda by reporting that once again American soldiers had committed atrocious acts in the midst of a war where the enemy is elusive and the cause is complicated.

The two sets of articles, on My Lai and on the mistreatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, serve as bookends on a career built on dogged pursuit. And longtime associates of Hersh say it is no coincidence that the news that has brought him back to the center of American journalism is one in which right and wrong are separated by clear lines.

Throughout his career Hersh has served as a sort of a global cop reporter, working disaffected bureaucrats, intelligence op-eratives and soldiers to uncover intelligence pratfalls, foreign intrigues and administration wrongdoing.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/05/21/2003156358

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1. And to find out that Christopher Hutchinson

attacking Hersh? What is the story of that Dude any way? What happened to him? And he wants Kissenger to go on trial???? x(