I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was just a liar and a hatchet man for Vice President Cheney in the White House. Douglas Feith was inside the Pentagon. Lying to cover up the reason for the war is one thing; responsibility for the disastrous occupation policies is...
Interview recorded Feb. 27, 2007. Listen to the interview. Although we've talked about this issue, your article in The New Yorker, "The Redirection," a couple of times, Mr. Hersh, would you give us a thumbnail sketch of your story? Hersh: Yeah, basically, it's a story...
In its newly released annual report on the status of human rights around the world, the U.S. State Department disparages a long list of nations about their violations of individual freedoms. The report notes that countries in which power is concentrated in the hands...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The security conference held last Saturday in Baghdad produced statements, drew mortar fire, and brought little hope of security. The conference attended by representatives from 13 countries, including Syria, Iran, and the United States,...
BOGOTÁ - U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Colombia was accompanied by signals that Washington may step up its efforts to secure the release of three U.S. intelligence operatives who have been held hostage by the main guerrilla group, the FARC, since...
Updated at 1:10 a.m. EST, March 14, 2007 Civilian violence picked up today with several incidents occurring in the capital and elsewhere. At least 102 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and another 31 Iraqis were wounded. A roadside bomb killed one American...
When it comes to surging in Iraq, it's "encouraging" out there. So the president tells us ("Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs…"); so Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, the surge commander in Baghdad, tells us ("[It's] too early to discern...
It was just nine months ago when Newsweek spoke for the conventional wisdom at that moment when it pronounced "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy." The phrase signaled the apparent victory – at last – of the State Department-led "realist" wing over hawks led by...
Chuck Hagel, wrote one editorialist, is "a man whose time has come," and today – if, as expected, he announces his candidacy for the White House – is a day that will transform the debate over the war and bridge the partisan divide that does so much...
Updated at 1:30 a.m. EST, Mar. 13, 2007At least 76 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 13 were wounded. Civilian violence was lighter than usual; most of today's deaths occurred during security operations. Also, the U.S. military reported that a Marine was...
