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.
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.