and seymour hersh is calling out some news organizations who have refused to publish his recent story on the obama administration's case for war with syria hearses up a list of prize winning journalist who accuse the obama administration of having pro cherry picked intelligence as it relates to syria's august twenty first chemical attack so why should her spread the story with his usual magazine the new yorker or the washington post r.t. political commentator sam fact more this is pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist seymour hersh he's been exposing u.s. military intelligence scandals since vietnam and he's got a new scoop this one alleging that the obama administration cherry picked intelligence reports when it allege that syrian president bashar al assad was behind the august twenty first chemical weapons attack near damascus published in the london review of books hersh argues the obama administration failed to acknowledge something known to the u.s. intelligence community the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarah hersh goes on

this is pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist seymour hersh he's been exposing u.s. military intelligence scandals since vietnam and he's got a new scoop this one alleging that the obama administration cherry picked intelligence reports when it alleged that syrian president bashar al assad was behind the august twenty first chemical weapons attack near damascus published in the london review of books hersh argues the obama administration failed to acknowledge something known to the u.s. intelligence community the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarah hersh goes on to say in the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that the al nusra front as you how to group affiliated with al qaida had mastered the mechanics of creating seren and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity than argues when the attack occurred al nusra should have been a suspect but the administration cherry picked intelligence to justify a strike against assad. the white h

believe that yeah why do and and i think maybe one of the reasons is for example recently seymour hersh presented a story the washington post showing proving demonstrating that the obama administration was cherry picking intelligence with regard to chemical weapons in syria and the post decided not to publish it they said no thanks and so seymour hersh's went to the world and said look at this they don't want to publish. is the is the a traditional media still serving in that role of holding the government you know the fourth the state holding the government in check. well that they are being. verily by the glenn greenwald's of the world glenn greenwald has got twenty or thirty millions or a million dollars to start his own. online newspaper if you will or whatever you want to call it and. the online types are going to win this battle say it's an intramural one will who's better the sobs and papers or the new guys because establishment papers as i said a few minutes ago. you know would no necessarily have the same courage. that they had x. years ago i can imagine the washington post doi

bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy the legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said no he knew it because he didn't have a case. there was incredible opposition there will be one of these days written about his maybe in history books there was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon amazin and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know exactly what happened syria on that fateful day but we do know

they stole a truck full of hersh hershey's chocolate. it's worth about $120,000. officials say someone entered a secure area on tuesday and made off with the goodies. sol far no sign of the truck or the chocolate. but, anne-marie, what are you going do with a truck full of chocolate? >> i guess there's a lot of holiday parties around. if someone's secret santa is handing out way too many chocolates, be suspicious. >> apparently. >> wendy gillette at the new york stock exchange. thank you, whendwendy. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather, and snow survivors. a family and their young children are found alive after days of being stranded in the frigid nevada mountains. ♪ ♪ if i was a flower growing wild and free ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to be my sweet honeybee ♪ ♪ and if was a tree growing tall and green ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves ♪ grown in america. picked & packed at the peak of ripeness. the same essential nutrients as fresh. del monte. bursting with life™. i'm here to get a camry. oh, camry is reliable and really fun to driv

amazin and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know exactly what happened syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war's have been based on lives before and we can't afford to let that happen again i'll expect to set. the little. they are very hard to take a. look. at how to act with the terror threat there. but. it seems like in today's society it's almost impossible to address government conspiracies without being painted as a lunatic but history proves conspiracies do exist and in fact many that have gone down in the store or record would shock people to the core if only they knew about them this lack of context regarding events that have shaped this country is a detriment to an

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publish this book and as someone who worked in the inside i mean the censorship is happening as seymour hersh said in a guardian op ed he said that in order to change the media and really have accurate coverage of protests and just humanity in general we need to fire about eighty to ninety percent of staffers at these mainstream outlets and i agree with him one hundred percent you are about as you left c.n.n. you exposed in censorship but funding from the. the government talk about this do you think this kind of quid pro quo is happening in other across the corporate media spectrum from crazy dictatorships like this i mean i would be hard pressed to trust any three letter network at this point just from what i witnessed from within and it's not just c.n.n. they're all being bought off right now they're their corporations they're their main goal is to make money not produce accurate journalism and what we did see with the bahrain regime is that they were paying off networks all of the networks so it wasn't just limited to c.n.n. and this is something people need to realize when you're watching

and it was discovered this particular trend was discovered all the way back in 1972 by yale hersh andthat once investors finish selling off all their losers to avoid paying capital gains tax on the winners, you have these professional traders swooping in. it's a great opportunity to snap up stocks at bargain prices, so a big professional buying spree. but be careful. i should also say don't necessarily think because we're talking about a santa claus rally that you should get in there and buy, buy, buy. also at this time of year, richard, you know there can be a lot of volatility because there's low volume and you never know what else can be thrown at you, so just be careful. seek advice. >> we had a great year, though, overall. >> unbelievably amazing year. whether it can be rep li katd next year remains to be seen but it's been a great year so far. >>> among the year-ending lists, here's one that might make you feel a bit, well, old. the "san francisco chronicle" has a list of celebrities who turned 50 this year. brad pitt turned 50. johnny depp is on that list too. these guys look l

the comment they made for the record was hersh is throwing crap against the wall.pleasant stories and will deny it. period. >> it's your track record not just for abu ghraib that is the reason you're here right now. i respect your work. but it's obviously a hot story. >> of course. >> thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate it. >>> just in to cnn, don't laugh, it's paid for. according to treasury secretary jack liu, the u.s. government has sold its last remaining stake in general motors which it bailed out in 2009. i want to go straight to zain asher. explain the significance of this sale. it's all gone? >> absolutely. the treasury department just announcing that it's selling the remaining shares it has in g.m. remember just a bit of background, g.m. actually got about $50 billion from the government during the financial crisis. that money was actually converted into equity. the government did also bail out chrysler, too. but the government actually owned more than 60% of g.m. it's been slowly selling those shares, winding down as the stock price rec

cy hersh, who was he? >> guest: he is on a par with bob woodward and carl bernstein. c-span: got a quote in the book that he said something to a woman by the name of leslie bennett. who is she? >> guest: leslie had just been hired as a reporter for "the new york times." she'd come in from the philadelphia bulletin after many years as a reporter if philadelphia. c-span: cy hirsh wrote the my lie massacre story. >> guest: not for the times, he was working if for an independent. c-span: he said you know perfectly well you never would have been hired if it hadn't been for the women's suit, don't you? >> guest: uh-huh. leslie bennetts was hired in 1978. it is ahazing the number of l talented women who were hired in 1978 which was the year that the lawsuit against the times for sex discrimination was settled in favor of the women who had brought the suit. there's a whole class of 1978, i found out. and immediately thereafter. the times began hiring more women reporters particularly because they're more visible because of their bylines, began hiring her women as soon as we c

>> joining us now, jeff hersh as well as gary goldberg. welcome to you both. think a lot of people talk about the santa claus rally as something in the run up to christmas. you say it really happens in the days after. >> yeah. it's something we discovered back in '72. it's the last five trading days of the year averages 17% on the s&p 500. friend did a study in the "the journal" back to 1986 better than any other seven day period of the year. >> eeb with the gains we've seen in the last 12 months, does that skew the possibility of this seasonal trend to happen this year? >> not necessarily. these gains have been quite seasonally, you know, expected as well. first half of december tends to be weak. i think after a couple weeks of softness here, we can get a santa claus rally get a small cap effect, a january effect. the important part other than the nice little gain can you get out of a santa claus rally is a phrase yale -- my father came up with if santa claus should fail to call, bears use it to create a wall. >> interesting. oliver, this comes after this yea

criticism, hersh said that we were a little caught off guard.rrivesy of state kerry for work to secure an israeli, palestinian peace deal. the director of wise health department has been killed in a small plane crash off of the island molokai. those are some of the headlines. the archduke francis ferdinand and his wife were in syria though. that was the capital of bosnia. they were on a two or. it was a bad day to come. it was a holiday. serbia, the neighboring company, was furious. it was a serious provocation. build --been trying to he was one of the people within austria-hungary and they decided to kill him. there have been warnings that something was approached. they shot one of -- one of the conspirators shot the archduke of his life. archdukesassination of francis ferdinand and his wife and the events leading up to world war i. margaret macmillan, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> the other thing that we could do, whether it made a difference or not, is use counterfactual history text. key, the the low- moderate republican -- wendell w il