War and Intelligence

Excellent New Yorker interview with veteran journalist Seymour Hersh about the intelligence gang who cooked up the reasons that were fed to the public justifying war with Iraq and the current situation.

And one of the things that's very troubling to me about this Administration, and one of the things that I was writing about in this article, is that this is a group of people who are very much committed to groupthink. They're committed to the notion that they know the truth and anybody who disagrees doesn't. I quote somebody as saying that they see themselves as being on the side of the angels and everybody else as fools. In covering Washington for forty years, I've never seen a group of people who have been so unwilling to hear the other side, who are so quick to see criticism not as loyal opposition but as betrayal.

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ivins is the best!