Seymour M. Hersh
Seymour M. Hersh wrote his first piece for The New Yorker in 1971 and has been a regular contributor to the magazine since 1993. His journalism and publishing awards include a Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. As a staff writer, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for Public Interest for his 2003 articles “Lunch with the Chairman,” “Selective Intelligence,” and “The Stovepipe.” In 2004, Hersh exposed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in a series of pieces in the magazine; in 2005, he again received a National Magazine Award for Public Interest, an Overseas Press Club Award, the National Press Foundation’s Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, and his fifth George Polk Award, making him that award’s most honored laureate.Read more
Letter from Vietnam
The Scene of the Crime
March 23, 2015
Daily Comment
Iraq, Ten Years Later: What About the Constitution?
March 13, 2013
News Desk
Daniel Inouye’s Conscience
December 18, 2012
News Desk
Scooped by Mike Wallace
April 8, 2012
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News Desk
Our Men in Iran?
April 5, 2012
Daily Comment
Iran and the I.A.E.A.
November 17, 2011
News Desk
A Reporter’s Lawyer
October 12, 2011
Annals of National Security
Iran And the Bomb
May 30, 2011
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News Desk
The “Kill Team” Photographs
March 22, 2011
Annals of National Security
The Online Threat
October 25, 2010
News Desk
Direct Quotes: Bashar Assad
February 3, 2010
Annals of National Security
Defending the Arsenal
November 7, 2009
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Annals of National Security
Syria Calling
March 29, 2009
Annals of National Security
Preparing the Battlefield
June 29, 2008
Annals of National Security
A Strike in the Dark
February 4, 2008
Annals of National Security
Shifting Targets
The Administration’s plan for lran.
October 1, 2007
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Annals of National Security
The General’s Report
How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
June 18, 2007
Comment
Comment
Newly unearthed Nixon tapes show that General John D. Lavelle’s “unauthorized” Vietnam bombings were secretly sanctioned—and then disavowed.
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March 19, 2007
Annals of National Security
The Redirection
As it covertly teams with Saudi Arabia and Israel against Iran and Syria, the Bush Administration risks empowering Sunni extremists.
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February 26, 2007
Annals of National Security
The Next Act
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
November 20, 2006
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Watching Lebanon
Washington’s interests in Israel’s war.
August 14, 2006
Annals of National Security
Last Stand
The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
July 3, 2006
National Security Dept.
Listening In
Inside the N.S.A.’s post‑9/11 phone‑tracking dragnet—and the unanswered questions shadowing Michael Hayden’s rise to the C.I.A..
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May 22, 2006
Annals of National Security
The Iran Plans
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
April 10, 2006
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Up in the Air
Where is the Iraq war headed next?
November 28, 2005
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Get out the Vote
Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election?
July 18, 2005
Ink
Watergate Days
Seymour Hersh recalls competing with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein—and how Watergate’s leakers tested the limits of presidential power.
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June 6, 2005
Annals of National Security
The Coming Wars
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
January 17, 2005
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Plan B
As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds.
June 21, 2004
Annals of National Security
The Gray Zone
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
May 17, 2004
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Chain of Command
How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.
May 10, 2004
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Torture at Abu Ghraib
A secret Army report reveals how leadership failures, intelligence demands, and private contractors turned a rebuilt prison into a torture machine.
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May 3, 2004
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The Other War
Why Bush’s Afghanistan problem won’t go away.
April 5, 2004
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The Deal
Why is Washington going easy on Pakistan’s nuclear black marketers?
March 1, 2004
Annals of National Security
Moving Targets
Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam?
December 8, 2003
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Uncovered
A small Ohio newspaper uncovers a Vietnam War unit’s hidden atrocities—and the Army’s long, quiet effort to bury them.
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November 3, 2003
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The Stovepipe
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.
October 20, 2003
Annals of National Security
The Syrian Bet
Did the Bush Administration burn a useful source on Al Qaeda?
July 21, 2003
Annals of National Security
Selective Intelligence
Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
May 5, 2003
Annals of National Security
Offense and Defense
The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
March 31, 2003
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Who Lied to Whom?
Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?
March 24, 2003
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Lunch with the Chairman
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
March 10, 2003
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The Cold Test
What the Administration knew about Pakistan and the North Korean nuclear program.
January 20, 2003
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The Cold Test
January 19, 2003
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Manhunt
Donald Rumsfeld’s push to turn Special Operations into global “hunter-killer” teams sparks legal, ethical, and strategic alarms.
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December 16, 2002
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The Twentieth Man
Has the Justice Department mishandled the case against Zacarias Moussaoui?
September 23, 2002
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Missed Messages
How intelligence warnings, bureaucratic turf wars, and F.B.I. dysfunction left Al Qaeda’s plans hidden in plain sight before September 11th.
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May 27, 2002
Annals of National Security
The Debate Within
The objective is clear—topple Saddam. But how?
March 4, 2002
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The Getaway
Questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift.
January 21, 2002
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The Iraq Hawks
Can their war plan work?
December 17, 2001
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The Iran Game
How will Tehran’s nuclear ambitions affect our budding partnership?
November 26, 2001
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Escape and Evasion
What happened when the Special Forces landed in Afghanistan?
November 5, 2001
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Watching the Warheads
As the U.S. bombs Afghanistan, Washington quietly plots to secure Pakistan’s warheads amid coup fears, I.S.I. freelancing, and Kashmir.
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October 29, 2001
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King’s Ransom
How vulnerable are the Saudi royals?
October 15, 2001
Annals of National Security
What Went Wrong
The C.I.A. and the failure of American intelligence.
October 1, 2001
The World of Business
The Price of Oil
What was Mobil up to in Kazakhstan and Russia?
July 2, 2001
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Annals of War
Overwhelming Force
A decorated Gulf War commander’s devastating last battle, and the buried allegations that his troops massacred retreating Iraqis.
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May 15, 2000
Annals of National Security
The Intelligence Gap
How the digital age left our spies out in the cold.
November 29, 1999
Annals of Espionage
Saddam’s Best Friend
How turf wars between the C.I.A. and U.N. inspectors gutted arms control in Iraq—and helped Saddam rebuild with Russian aid.
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March 29, 1999
Annals of Espionage
The Traitor
The case against Jonathan Pollard.
January 11, 1999
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The Missiles of August
The White House claimed it had “convincing evidence” to support the strikes against Osama bin Laden. But the experts aren’t convinced.
October 5, 1998
A Reporter at Large
Missile Wars
As Bill Clinton heads into his summit with Boris Yeltsin, the Administration is relying on the perceived success of the Patriot missile to push through a new defense system, even though Washington is still bitterly debating evidence of the Patriot’s failings in the Gulf War—and the danger of igniting a new arms race.
September 19, 1994
Comment
Spy Vs. Spy
The Central Intelligence Agency needs more than an overhaul.
August 1, 1994
A Reporter at Large
A Case Not Closed
The White House’s decision to bomb Baghdad in June was based on an F.B.I. report concluding that the Iraqi government ordered the alleged plot to assassinate George Bush in Kuwait. The attack was hailed as a crucial foreign-policy victory for Bill Clinton—despite the deaths of eight civilians. But how solid was the F.B.I.’s evidence?
October 25, 1993
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A Reporter at Large
The Spoils of the Gulf War
There are hundreds of millions of dollars to be made by whoever wins contracts to rebuild the war-wrecked infrastructure of Kuwait. Two of George Ruth’s sons and some of his closest former advisers are hoping to be among the first to reap the rewards. Are they trying to cash in on America’s military victory?
August 30, 1993
A Reporter at Large
On the Nuclear Edge
In the spring of 1990, Pakistan and India faced off in the most dangerous nuclear confrontation of the postwar era. And while the Bush Administration successfully averted disaster, it kept the crisis a secret, even from Congress, as it also kept secret the extent of Pakistan’s covert nuclear purchases inside the United States.
March 22, 1993
A Reporter at Large
Nixon’s Last Cover-up: the Tapes He Wants the Archives to Suppress
How Richard Nixon, his lawyers, and a compliant National Archives fought to keep the most revealing White House tapes unheard.
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December 7, 1992
The Talk of the Town
Observer from Vietnam
Nguyen Co Thach weighs Vietnam’s postwar struggles, Cold War alliances, and hopes for normalization with a divided, wasteful, and powerful America.
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October 16, 1978
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A Reporter at Large
Coverup—II
The Army’s investigation into the My Lai massacre—and a second, largely forgotten slaughter at My Khe—became a study in denial.
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January 22, 1972
A Reporter at Large
The Massacre at My Lai
A mass killing and its coverup.
January 15, 1972
A Reporter at Large
The Reprimand
After helicopter crews kill civilians in a “pacified” village, Major General Lloyd B. Ramsey opts for quiet reprimands, not trials.
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October 2, 1971
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