Seymore Hersch: ‘You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on the 20th of January.’

In a recent interview, investigative journalist Seymour Hersch (who’s so good at what he does that Richard Perle called him ‘the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist’) says:

“You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president’s inauguration],’ he says, with relish. ‘[They say:] “You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.” So that is what I’ll do, so long as nothing awful happens before the inauguration.”

He then unfortunately goes on to state:

‘They’ve got away with it, categorically; anyone who talks about prosecuting Bush and Cheney [for war crimes] is kidding themselves’ - it will reveal how the White House ‘set out to sabotage the system… It wasn’t that they found ways to manipulate Congressional oversight; they had conversations about ending the right of Congress to intervene.’

At least we’ll have a better idea what they did, even if they won’t be punished for it.