[lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources?

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At 02:39 PM 4/13/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Michael Hoover wrote:
>
>>forget who said that d.c. is only known vessel to leak from the top, 
>>stuff that
>>gets uncovered is almost always because someone *high* in government -
>>be s/he dissident, malcontent, servant, president - wants stuff uncovered...
>
>True of a lot of the stuff you read in the NYT or WP. But that's not the 
>way Hersh works - he gets his stuff from people further down the ladder 
>who don't like the way things are being done.
>
>I feel offended on Hersh's behalf that he's essentially being accused of 
>carrying water for the Bush admin. The man is a national treasure and 
>deserves a lot better than that.
>
>Doug

doesn't this come from earlier critiques of his Abu Ghraib work, where 
people were claiming (on the left) that he was essentially a tool of the 
CIA, had a soft spot for them?

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