Mr. SEYMOUR HERSH (Reporter, The New Yorker): Well, let me just tell you that I haven't seen it.

NPR: Article Claims CIA Has No Evidence of Iran Nuke Program

Antonio Taguba, New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh said the mistreatment of prisoners was done "to break down somebody before interrogation" at the direction of U.S. military intelligence.

CNN: U.S. denies widespread abuse?at prison in Iraq

But it was only when the photos of the ill-treatment of prisoners were supplied to the 60 Minutes current affairs programme and to the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that it turned into a full-blown military scandal.

BBC: The history of US leaks

The reporting of the journalists Seymour Hersh, Jane Mayer and Ron Suskind none of whom are part of the gaggle of daily political reporters has led to separate but profound exposes involving the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

NPR: The McEnroe Rule: Less Punditry Is More

Even more preposterous than the intelligence community's seeming cognitive dissonance about collaboration between terrorists across ideological and religious lines are claims made by various conspiracy theorists including, notably, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker that Secretary Feith's organization had its own mini-CIA cooking up fraudulent intelligence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Feith's fight

Even more preposterous than the intelligence community's seeming cognitive dissonance about collaboration between terrorists across ideological and religious lines are claims made by various conspiracy theorists including, notably, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker that Secretary Feith's organization had its own mini-CIA cooking up fraudulent intelligence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America is indebted to Douglas Feith