Comment by groby_b
14 days ago
If it weren't Sy Hersh, this might be more believable. The guy has been putting some distance between himself and reality for over a decade now.
(Could it be true? Maybe. IDK. No dog in that particular fight. But if you, as an anonymous source, go to Sy Hersh, you're an idiot or don't want large numbers of people to believe what you're saying. Occam's razor suggests the former)
Yup - he's a genuine tragedy.
So another Aaron Maté?
From what I know of the guy, I can't see mentioning the two in the same sentence.
Hersh's (good) works were truly monumental. I'm not aware of anything that Maté has brought to the table that would be even remotely comparable. And unlike Hersh (who for many years enjoyed a reputation seemingly beyond reproach), Maté seems to have started shooting himself in the foot pretty soon after he became widely known.