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A high-level journalist names names

From his latest dispatch on the war, a famous journalist with close ties to officials in... reveals his sources:

"A high-level Pentagon war planner told me... One Pentagon adviser told me... Current and former military and intelligence officials have told me... In recent interviews, one former senior official said ... A retired senior C.I.A. officer with knowledge of Iraq told me ... the former defense official said ... another senior military planner now on assignment in the Pentagon asked ... a Marine press release said ... a former high-level intelligence official told me... The second senior military planner told me that ... One senior Pentagon consultant I spoke to said... A Pentagon consultant with close ties to the officials in... A senior United Nations diplomat told me that ... The second Pentagon consultant told me... A former high-level intelligence official cautioned that..."

I mean, there's non-attribution and there's non-attribution and there's "UP IN THE AIR: Where is the Iraq war headed next?" Seymour Hersh is 68.




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