He only cites an anonymous source. A whistleblower might not want to give up their name, but usually at least provides some evidence. There is nothing here but a tale that goes on long tangents which have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
So I doubt much will come off it unless the story gets at least a little bit more meat on it's bones.
Seymour Hersh is the guy who exposed the My Lai massacre. Not to go full lib credibility monger here, but I don't think this guy would say this for no reason. Especially since he's an American citizen and there's a strong incentive in our bipartisan war mongering media echochamber to ignore this kind of thing and just say the russians did it over and over. So if anything his conflict of interest would go against exposing this. He's publishing this in spite of the incentive structure at play.
Seymour Hersh definitely gets used for limited hangout sometimes for sure, but historically his info has been good and has said in the past that he basically benefits from from internal politics in the intelligence community more often than traditional whistleblowers.
At this point I'd be much, much more interested in evidence the US didn't do it. Saying "The US did it and this is how" is just kind of "well yeah duh we knew that the only question was the details" but if someone could show something convincing suggesting another actor it would actually change the picture.
He only cites an anonymous source. A whistleblower might not want to give up their name, but usually at least provides some evidence. There is nothing here but a tale that goes on long tangents which have nothing to do with the matter at hand. So I doubt much will come off it unless the story gets at least a little bit more meat on it's bones.
Seymour Hersh is the guy who exposed the My Lai massacre. Not to go full lib credibility monger here, but I don't think this guy would say this for no reason. Especially since he's an American citizen and there's a strong incentive in our bipartisan war mongering media echochamber to ignore this kind of thing and just say the russians did it over and over. So if anything his conflict of interest would go against exposing this. He's publishing this in spite of the incentive structure at play.
Seymour Hersh definitely gets used for limited hangout sometimes for sure, but historically his info has been good and has said in the past that he basically benefits from from internal politics in the intelligence community more often than traditional whistleblowers.
At this point I'd be much, much more interested in evidence the US didn't do it. Saying "The US did it and this is how" is just kind of "well yeah duh we knew that the only question was the details" but if someone could show something convincing suggesting another actor it would actually change the picture.