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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5520696" data-attributes="member: 48469">I did read it. Republicans aren&#039;t questioning the use of anonymous sources this time when we have indeed seen the citing of anonymous sources by &quot;journalists&quot; come up short time after time? What&#039;s that all about? This isn&#039;t a political thing is it?<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh" target="_blank">Seymour Hersh - Wikipedia</a>&quot;There has been sustained criticism of Hersh&#039;s use of anonymous sources.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-Kennedy_investigation_criticism-74" target="_blank">[74]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-anonymous_sources_criticism-75" target="_blank">[75]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-Metro_interview-76" target="_blank">[76]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-:1-77" target="_blank">[77]</a>&quot;&quot;As soon as he has made an assertion he cites a &#039;source&#039; to back it. In every case this is either an un-named former official or an unidentified secret document passed to Hersh in unknown circumstances. ... By my count Hersh has anonymous &#039;sources&#039; inside 30 foreign governments and virtually every department of the U.S. government.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-anonymous_sources_criticism-75" target="_blank">[75]</a>&quot;&quot;In response to an article in The New Yorker in which Hersh alleged that the U.S. government was planning a strike on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" target="_blank">Iran</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Defense_Department" target="_blank">U.S. Defense Department</a> spokesman Bryan G. Whitman said, &quot;This reporter has a solid and well-earned reputation for making dramatic assertions based on thinly sourced, unverifiable anonymous sources.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-US_gov_criticism-78" target="_blank">[78]</a>&quot;&quot;In his Bin Laden story, &quot;Hersh relied at least 55 times on an anonymous retired senior intelligence official.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-:1-77" target="_blank">[77]</a> In 2015, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(website)" target="_blank">Vox&#039;s</a> Max Fisher wrote that &quot;Hersh has appeared increasingly to have gone off the rails. His stories, often alleging vast and shadowy conspiracies, have made startling — and often internally inconsistent — accusations, based on little or no proof beyond a handful of anonymous &#039;officials&#039;.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5520696, member: 48469"] I did read it. Republicans aren't questioning the use of anonymous sources this time when we have indeed seen the citing of anonymous sources by "journalists" come up short time after time? What's that all about? This isn't a political thing is it? [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh']Seymour Hersh - Wikipedia[/URL] "There has been sustained criticism of Hersh's use of anonymous sources.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-Kennedy_investigation_criticism-74'][74][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-anonymous_sources_criticism-75'][75][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-Metro_interview-76'][76][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-:1-77'][77][/URL]" "As soon as he has made an assertion he cites a 'source' to back it. In [I]every case[/I] this is either an un-named former official or an unidentified secret document passed to Hersh in unknown circumstances. ... By my count Hersh has anonymous 'sources' inside 30 foreign governments and virtually every department of the U.S. government.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-anonymous_sources_criticism-75'][75][/URL]" "In response to an article in [I]The New Yorker[/I] in which Hersh alleged that the U.S. government was planning a strike on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran']Iran[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Defense_Department']U.S. Defense Department[/URL] spokesman Bryan G. Whitman said, "This reporter has a solid and well-earned reputation for making dramatic assertions based on thinly sourced, unverifiable anonymous sources."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-US_gov_criticism-78'][78][/URL]" "In his Bin Laden story, "Hersh relied at least 55 times on an anonymous retired senior intelligence official."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#cite_note-:1-77'][77][/URL] In 2015, [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_(website)']Vox's[/URL][/I] Max Fisher wrote that "Hersh has appeared increasingly to have gone off the rails. His stories, often alleging vast and shadowy conspiracies, have made startling — and often internally inconsistent — accusations, based on little or no proof beyond a handful of anonymous 'officials'." [/QUOTE]

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