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To: PartyTime who wrote (3028)	4/11/2006 1:32:18 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

You can find as much as I can, but here's a couple for starters.... What Went Wrong The flaw in Seymour Hersh's theory. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004, at 12:52 PM ET slate.com Article at link.............> AND .... 5/17/2004 4:06 pm: Mark Kilmer uncategorized Pentagon: “Hersh made it up” rightsided.org Symour Hersh is a legend amongst other reporters for a story he wrote in the late ’60s. Since then, he’s dealt his conspiracy theory: Flight 007, Israel’s hidden nukes, Gulf War Syndrome, etc. Now he’s touting a tale about a super-secret commando force, played in film by Sylvester Stalone, which Don Rumsfeld turned loose on Abu Ghraib. The Pentagon and the CIA say: “Nonsense.” [CNN link] “This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed,” said Lawrence DiRita, spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in response to Hersh’s report. A senior intelligence official said the article contains “fantasy,” adding, “I haven’t found any truth in it.” The unit described simply does not exist, the intelligence official said. [ . . . ] DiRita, responding Monday, called Hersh “one of history’s great conspiracy theorists.” And the intelligence official told CNN there is no such thing as “Copper Green.” The official said there is no joint interrogation program between the Defense Department and the CIA approved by the Secretary of Defense. It is “incorrect” to suggest that the CIA withdrew from interrogations at Abu Ghraib, the intelligence official added. Hersh claims to have had fewer than six but more than two sources. On CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, he told Senators Carl Levin and Lindsey Graham: “Some senior officers will tell you [Congress] some things which will really knock your socks off if you give them adequate protection.” It seems to me, then, that Hersh hyperbolized from a disgruntled source.