Brad DeLong via Digby posts an article commenting on a Sy Hersh lecture.
If what it reports is true, then once again it looks like the Bush administration is worse than I had imagined--even though I thought I had taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is always worse than one imagines. Either Seymour Hersh is insane, or we have an administration that needs to be removed from office not later than the close of business today.
Sy Hersh is the investigative journalist who broke the Abu Ghraib story. I posted a link to a Diane Rehm interview with him yesterday, in which he made some of the same comments, including the one about video tape of horrible (unnamed by Hersh) things being done to the young boys held in Abu Ghraib, which we haven't seen yet. From DeLong's lecture notes:
He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run."
He looked frightened.
He looked frightened.
And, if you remember my post where I listed a handful of people in the Bush administration who were scoundrels and criminals from the Reagan administration. Apparently, Mr. Hersh had a list of 138 names.
He talked about how hard it is to get the truth out in Republican Washington: "If you agree with the neocons you're a genius. If you disagree you're a traitor." Bush, he said, was closing ranks, purging anyone who wasn't 100% with him. Said Tenet has a child in bad health, has heart problems, and seemed to find him generally a decent guy under unimaginable pressure, and that people told him that Tenet feared a heart attack if he had to take one more grilling from Cheney. "When these guys memoirs come out, it will shock all of us."...
Read Brad's full post here.
