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The Abu Ghraib scandal, with its ethical, humanitarian and legal symbolism, was the beginning of the end for the American occupation of Iraq.

It has impacted freedom of the press.

Over the last 50 years, Hersh has built a network of informants, who deliver him a type of alternative reality to the one the White House presents. For the bin Laden story, he spoke to sources that he’s known since the seventies and eighties, he said. Can an experienced reporter like Seymour Hersh place too much belief in such an alternative reality? Can skepticism tip over into seeing conspiracy theories at every turn?

After an honorable 50-year career fighting the powers that be, the Pulitzer Prize winner fears no one.

[I]f Hersh’s sources are telling the truth ... Ukraine is simply doomed.

The fact that intelligence services like the NSA are able to collect trillions of pieces of data annually by skimming global communications is only a small — albeit an easily scandalized — slice of a much bigger revolution.

Forcing ... ignoble acts into the light helped to bring an unjust war to a close. Hersh saved lives with his reporting.

The question posed by numerous West Africans is whether or not this serum will be used in Africa — or does one have to be an American citizen to benefit from it?

[Sarah Palin] is a powerhouse-–she’s almost a tank. Is she a battleaxe, even?