I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a very bad National Security Adviser. The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed.… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to do -… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share
