Seymour Hersh making crap up…again

Zedechek sends us a link to a HuffPo article about Seymour Hersh in which Hersh tells us that our troops are executing prisoners in Afghanistan. His proof? Well, someone told him.

“One of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan,” Hersh said during a discussion at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference last month in Geneva, where he was also the keynote speaker. “They’re being executed on the battlefield.”

Hersh, who broke the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story in 2004, says that five or six people had told him about the battlefield executions of prisoners.

Here’s the video;

Of course, he doesn’t bring us any proof, just these anecdotal stories he heard from “five or six people” Was it five or was it six? He can’t even count them on his fingers? Who were these people? Were they actual US soldiers or was people at one of his cocktail parties in his New York apartment who’d never set foot in Afghanistan and simply have a feeling about this thing?

Yeah, Hersh broke the Abu Ghraib, months after the military had completed their investigation and were preparing charges. And remember the “assassination squads” he’d warned us about – COB6 wrote about them last year. It turned out that these assassination squads never got past the committee meeting which mentioned them briefly.

So now, Hersh is going to start charging the troops with murder based on the word of either five or six people who we don’t know. And, it’s funny how he makes Obama a victim of the military. Obama doesn’t make the decisions, but he has to look away. His Justice Department bends over backwards for terrorists we have in custody, but somehow he can’t stop battlefield executions. Crackpot.

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