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Just flagged this in the hopes that you'll reconsider.

It's no secret that Hersh's work has become increasingly suspect in recent years. Every time he writes, he cites a single anonymous source and yet manages to go into an implausible level of detail and completeness with neatly tied up loose ends you'd only expect to find in a Tom Clancy novel. The only reason this story has been rescued from the dustbin is due to Hersh's (old) reputation, which though well earned, shouldn't just give him a pass.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-grenier-reflects-on-s...

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/21/10634002/seymour-hersh-syria-...

>>kstene+(OP)
Yeah, instead of blog posts Hersh should write spy thrillers in tje tradition of the early Tom Clancy works. I would even pay for those, I like the setting and the narrative Hersh oresented in this blog, and the writing, are compelling and good. For a fictional book, not for journalism.

>>kstene+(OP)
Citing Businessinsider and Vox really doesn't help the credibility of your claims.

>>hef198+91
such an odd thing how so many people are likening to tom clancy. are these people comparing notes?

>>pasqui+t71
Clancy is far and away the most famous and notable writer of this kind of stuff though, and the name that would have come to me first too if I wanted to make a similar point.

He had a lock on the genre like nobody else before or since.

>>pasqui+t71
not only on hackernews, also on reddit and twitter. all following a similar script.

>>hef198+91
Are you saying you doubt that the US did this? Seriously? Do you have an alternative theory?