Seymour Hersh

Events (37)

• January 8-9, 1973: Press Reports Burglars to Receive Money, Executive Clemency for Guilty Pleas and Silence 1973-01-08
• June 20-August 14, 1974: CIA, Hughes Corporation Attempts to Retrieve Sunken Soviet Submarine; Retrieval Risks Confrontation with Soviet Union 1974-08-14
• December 21, 1974: New York Times Reveals CIA Spied on US Citizens for Decades 1974-12-21
• May 25, 1975: Journalist Reveals US Spy Program; Cheney Recommends Burglaries and Indictments as Retaliation 1975-05-25
• After 11:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: INS Employee Tells Journalist Airport Workers Put Guns on Planes 2001-09-11
• September 30, 2002: No Plea Bargain Sought in Case Against Moussaoui 2002-09-30
• October 16, 2002 and After: Italian Journalist Learns Iraq-Niger Story Unlikely; Editor Refuses to Allow Her to Write Story of False Claims 2002-10-16
• November 25, 2002: Woodward Publishes ‘Hagiographic’ Book Chronicling Bush’s Response to 9/11, Preparations for War with Iraq 2002-11-25
• February 17, 2003: International Atomic Energy Agency Scientist Concludes Niger Documents Are Fraudulent 2003-02-17
• March 9, 2003: Neoconservative Calls Journalist ‘Terrorist’ over Accusations of War Profiteering 2003-03-09
• March 12, 2003: Neoconservative Policy Adviser Announces Lawsuit against Journalist over Accusations of Profiteering 2003-03-12
• March 17, 2003: Neoconservative Foreign Policy Adviser Accused of Conflicts of Interest, War Profiteering 2003-03-17
• January 17-18, 2005: Military Analysts Attribute Iran Article to ‘Disgruntled CIA Employees Who… Should be Taken out and Shot’; Report Back to Pentagon with Results 2005-01-17
• November 19, 2007: CIA Finds No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Bomb; White House Ignores CIA In Favor of Unverifiable Israeli Claims 2007-11-19
• November 26-28, 2007: Bush Discusses Upcoming Iran NIE Findings with Israeli Prime Minister 2007-11-26
• March 10, 2009: Reporter: Cheney’s Office Ran ‘Executive Assassination Wing’ 2009-03-10
• March 12, 2009: ’Executive Assassination Wing’ Potentially a ‘War Crime,’ Says Former Nixon Lawyer 2009-03-12
• March 22, 2009: O’Reilly: Cheney Would Have Journalists Assassinated If He Had Control of Assassination Squad 2009-03-22
• March 30, 2009: Repudiation of ‘Executive Assassination Wing’ Undercut by Implied Confirmation from Former Cheney Aide 2009-03-30
• March 31, 2009: Journalist Explains ‘Executive Assassination Wing’ Charge, Military Involvement 2009-03-31
• May 11, 2009: Former Black Operations Chief Stanley McChrystal Tapped to Replace David McKiernan as Top US Commander in Afghanistan 2009-05-11
• January 1988: Reagan Invokes, then Waives Amendment Cutting off Aid for Pakistan Because of Its Nuclear Weapons Program
• February 1975: Media Reports on ‘Project Jennifer’; New York Times Sat on Story
• March 1987: A. Q. Khan Says Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons, then Retracts Claims
• May 1990: US Concludes Pakistan Has Six to Ten Nuclear Weapons
• June 1990-March 1993: Details of US Success in Averting Nuclear War between India and Pakistan Remain Secret for Almost Three Years
• August 1985: Pressler Amendment Passed, Requiring Yearly Certification that Pakistan Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons
• Late September 2001: FBI Confused about 9/11 Hijackers, Suspect They Left Deliberate Trail of Misleading Clues
• Fall 1972: Ford Covers for Nixon in Watergate Investigation
• 1987-1989: US Continues to Certify Pakistan Does Not Have Nuclear Weapon, Despite Intelligence that It Does
• 1991-1992: US Allows Pakistan to Buy American Arms Despite Prohibited Nuclear Weapons Program
• Late 1980s: ’Everybody in Congress’ Knows Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons
• Mid-July, 2004: Investigative Journalist Charges that Women, Children Raped at Abu Ghraib
• Late 2006: US Policy Shift in Iraq Aimed at Rolling Back Growing Iranian Influence
• (Early 2007): Hezbollah Leader Believes Ultimate Aim of US Policy in Iraq Is to Partition It into Three Parts
• February 2007: Former NSC Official: White House Pressure on Iran Is an Effort to Provoke War
• Early January 2005: US Military Consultant Says US Invasion Would Destabilize Iranian Regime