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the heroin issue bolstering john's accusations was an article by investigative journalist seymour hersh in april of two thousand and four person reported that retired military and cia officials had told them there were increasing reports of heroin use by american military personnel in afghanistan with the us being highest among the reserve units according to one of her sources pentagon leadership was taking your head in the sand approach to the issue and had no desire to expose the problem or get law enforcement involved. other than the market was not that such. as weeks turned to months with no answers forthcoming from the military john's father took every opportunity to protest the son's death becoming a regular anti-war demonstrations throughout the country. so you also get your act yes but i'm not going to study so if i harness all the vital he's going to kenya many tell you it was worth noting this terrible here is a lot of drive not a problem play so nice guy inside a base. after the fall of the taliban there was an explosion in poppy cultivation throughout the country packing pla

hersh from allentown, pennsylvania. and jimmy smith from albamars, north carolina. >> so you all move out that day. and a lot of people have said you were weighted down. the whole group was weighted down with a lot of -- you know, moving a lot of materials. >> a lot of -- well, i won't say a lot but we had equipment that normally -- anticipating being flown out soldiers carry a lot more stuff than they would if they had to pack it. we normally had -- but the canteen, the two canteens of water and extra ammunition. but again, a lot of -- we had gotten resupplied and so lots of resupplies that we had we still had because we didn't do -- we didn't expend a lot of ammunition that night so, again, even the ammunition that we expended we replenished in the morning. so i wouldn't say we were burdened down but it was an unusual load for an air mobile company to be carrying. and it was unusual for an air mobile company to be walking around in the woods because normally airplanes came, picked us up and we got a free ride. so i wo

profits and next they want to respond to a viewer that watched our interview on the report by seymour hersh of the united states was training to any k. in the us during the bush administration our viewers comments very much as though the thoughts that we often have a debate because three comments on youtube another group of fun then turn on later jane bernie that on facebook amazing the american government hasn't learned from past mistakes wonder how long this will take to bite them in the ass again and i've been asking myself the exact same thing we funded many a group and then come to regret it and wish you could see the contras just to name a few and it appears we have not learned our lesson at all is not quite the opposite we continue to find unsavory regimes opposition groups all across the globe as long fits our immediate interests now with our principles or the long term effects and finally i want to respond to a comment that a viewer had in response to our happy hour a segment for monday where my. producer jenny churchill and our guest we were scrunchies in solidarity with hillary c

and as a good journalist seymour hersh wrote in the new yorker last friday that jay sock conducted training for members of the two thousand and five at the training and some time before president obama took office and that training included cryptography communications small unit tactics weaponry and her spoke to a number of sources for this former senior intelligence official a retired four star general who advise the bush and obama administrations retired cia agent pentagon consultants and i make a defector and others so if it's true the next question we have to ask is why are this so with me is raising the russian research director of the national iranian american council here's the thing so much for joining us tonight that's right so for starters you know what do you think of this report is this something that you have you heard about this before and i think it's safe to say that most people in the u.s. government to work on iran related issues probably didn't know i myself in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven when i was working at the state participated in the terrorists t

. >> reporter: richard hersh and vicki pobroski said by leaving mexico, bruce wasn't a fugitive at all he was just coming home. >> if there was a warrant for his arrest, a judge had ordered him to stay, of which neither occurred, he didn't have to stay in mexico. >> reporter: the authorities told him not to leave the country, so isn't that in defiance to the authorities? >> the authorities had no legal right to tell him to stay. >> but it gave the impression he was a criminal fleeing in the night. with no passport, even. >> there were film crews camped out his house. he certainly wasn't hiding. >> reporter: no reason to hide, say his attorneys, because bruce is innocent. they say the investigation in mexico was botched from the start. >> it was sort of like round up the usual suspects, casablanca, and no attempt to see if anyone else was involved in monica's death. >> reporter: and they said they have evidence that could clear bruce's name. >> coming up, the couple's young daughter speaks. could it turn the case upside down? >> she has a very vivid recollection of her mother wearing a

john goff and ken hersh are here. ken also long time partners and friend with richard rainwater. here's what we've learned off camera before we came back. rainwater responsible, got be hundreds of thousands of jobs i would think in the economy over his tenure wouldn't you think? >> i think so. >> both of you guys, you were a cpa who -- >> was? >> all right. but you're working, you're assigned to him as a client of one of the big, i don't know how many there are now but a football conference. how many three, four? >> four. >> so he saw something in you and called you and said come with me. come with me almost like chrysler. >> for whatever reason he developed a personal interest in me while i worked with him on just various assignments. this was when he was with the bass family. i worked on all kind of transactions, his personal financial, et cetera, tax issues, you name it. and then when he left the basses, shortly thereafter i got the call of my lifetime. >> you got the call. >> i think he said we're going to do real

pentagon papers and the media's role in covering the abuses in vietnam and if you look at what seymour hershs done, noam chomsky and they publish their books into mainstream marketplace and you have "mother jones" magazine. all of these are arguably part of the corporate media and yet when i'm rooms like this people are cheerleading the demise the corporate media. did people in this room imagine that logs and tweeters are going to undercut -- uncover the pieces that went back in the day of the united fruit company? you don't investigate stuff by linking it to other people's reporting. sooner or later when the original reporting goes away so does our capacity to undercover -- uncover the abuses we are talking about. if you really want to make sure those abuses aren't happening we have to figure out a way to make investigative journalism survive and i don't think you can simply show slogans that the corporate media and expect something to replace it that will hold government to account. >> i would like to thank the spy museum for its hospitality. [applause] >> here's a quick look at some progr

seymour hersh asked why you talk to him. >> i did learn from people inside the agency that there hadeen documents called family jewels. i had your father's phone number and i called him. he didn't lie to me. what he did was if i said there was 120 cases of wiretapping of american citizens contrary to the law in america, he said my number is only 63. it was a question of numbers. he did not back away from the question. that is one hell of a story. c-span: a little bit more than what you might imagine that he said. if you trace back what he said, he said that he was pivotal to the publishing of that story. my father was the source, in some ways, to that story. the leaker at the top. now, you might say, my god, why would he do that? i think he was doing what he's that he was going to do. he was going to keep the good secrets and let out the bad secrets. there had been wrongdoing. 697 instances of stagnation plots -- experiments on human guinea pigs. torture, double agents on american soil. these were not -- this was not legal. these are things that needed to be revealed as past indiscre

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