after him and we all follow sy hersh. he gave us the best look at those george bush administration after the 9/11 attacks. after his book on john kennedy hersh was considered washed up considered to be done over. he had begun to work all little bit on the middle east and then 9/11 attacks happened. he was backing his car out of his driveway in washington d.c. and got a call from the new yorker, and said we know what you're going to be doing for the next year, you are working on the cia the george bush administration and the middle east. he then gave over four year period look at what was taking place in the middle east that you could find anywhere. sy hersh has been for many years what a journalist should be. a pariah, constantly indignant, independent source of information, someone who gets below the surface, behind closed doors, tells us what things are really like. why he is so controversial, so revered and reviled, it is a funny story. after the of the great story appeared there was a protest in london and a little gir

what is it about sy hersh and this book that perhaps resonates today? what does he think of revelations were leaking of material by edward snowden clinics where has hersh been for the last two years. where has he been? as he retired? the answer to that is absolutely not. he's working on a book on the cheney bush administration and he was just about to publish and thought he was close finishing it and somebody dropped as they often do dropped a trove of documents that indicated to him the covert, intelligence activitieactivitie s that took place during the bush years had extended into the obama year so he had to keep going and is now working on that. he will be back soon and i suspect it will be big headlines. the other thing i thought i could do besides answer those questions is this. one other question i would like to answer and that is the question of will we ever see the likes of the seymour hersh again in the age of the internet in bits and pieces of information and? can we expect to see someone again like the scoop artist? the other thing i thought

i am beginning to chase the great muckrakers sy hersh. in 1975 hersh was becoming so famous for rolling stone magazine's decides to do, and inside is seymour hersh. the toughest reporter in america. interviewed by joe westinghouse, a hollywood screen writer. at two part interview with seymour hersh, toughest reporter in america. this has been sitting in my files for many years. the photos, famous american photographer and the cover of the book is a photograph taken in that point in time, when she was working, not as well-known of course, and she was set to take pictures of sy hersh. one of the photos is sy hersh carrying a typewriter on the stairs with one of his children and his wife, as you see what i described, trying to get hersh and his family to talk, he was upset when he would be using this photograph. i told him -- came out was over. i think in some ways it begins to capture hirsch's personality. i first met seymour hersh in the fall of 1985 when he was 48 years old. invited him to speak at my university, small college 70 miles fro

what is it about sy hersh and this book that perhaps resonates today? what does he think of revelations were leaking of material by edward snowden clinics where has hersh been for the last two years. where has he been? as he retired? the answer to that is absolutely not. he's working on a book on the cheney bush administration and he was just about to publish and thought he was close finishing it and somebody dropped as they often do dropped a trove of documents that indicated to him the covert, intelligence activitieactivitie s that took place during the bush years had extended into the obama year so he had to keep going and is now working on that. he will be back soon and i suspect it will be big headlines. the other thing i thought i could do besides answer those questions is this. one other question i would like to answer and that is the question of will we ever see the likes of the seymour hersh again in the age of the internet in bits and pieces of information and? can we expect to see someone again like the scoop artist? the other thing i thought

sy hersh, me lie, and all of that meant. -- and all that that meant.the horror of vietnam as a continue to unfold. watergate. woodward and bernstein. think about -- that is where they got their beginnings and their fame, to sit that way, in terms of reporting. it was a really cool profession to be in. then i saw a president of the united states resign from office. yet when i became eyewitness to just a few short decades later -- in fact, in reality, it was only about twice six years later -- wendy six years later -- makes the nixon era look tame by comparison. and much of what was actually illegal during the 1970's and terms of government act tvs violating the law became legal. i mention all of that because that is the context in which i came the context in which i was .came the context in which i was brought up. vermont used to be a republic for 14 years until he joined the union. in 1791. we have to remember the beginnings of this country and that the first amendment, which i ultimately have to confront after 9/11, what is happening to our country, t

sy hersh, me lie, and all of that meant. the horror of vietnam as a continue to unfold. watergate.woodward and bernstein. think about -- that is where they got their beginnings and their fame, to sit that way, in terms of reporting. it was a really cool profession to be in. then i saw a president of the united states resign from office. yet when i became eyewitness to just a few short decades later -- in fact, in reality, it was only about twice six years later -- makes the nixon era look tame by comparison. government. the real truth here is what i was confronted by. in terms of what the government chose to do -- no public debate, no need for the public to know -- and fat, they were doing everything to keep us away from the public. so what do you do? my colleagues resigned from the agency that i work with. and i chose to stay on and fight. i made a conscious choice that i would fight them from within because that moment of truth set into motion my whistleblowing within the system for a number of years and then ultimately leading to a choice to go to the press with what i knew. and