Seymour Hersh is making waves for an article appearing in the London Review of Books questioning the official account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. As is typical of Hersh, the article makes shocking claims based on anonymous sources. Back in 2012, his record was ably critiqued by James Kirchick at Commentary. But credit for the greatest single reaction to a Hersh article had to go to former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, in a 2006 Congressional hearing.
During a hearing before a House Government Reform Subcommittee, then-Rep. Dennis Kucinich asked Bolton whether he had read a Hersh story.
“We have seen a report in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh that a U.S. source told him that U.S. Marines were operating in the Baluchis, Azeris and Kurdish regions of Iran,” Kucinich said. Have you ever heard of that report?”
Bolton replied that he had not heard of the report and had no intention to read it. When Kucinich pressed him further, Bolton replied, “I don’t have time to read much fiction.”
Full exchange embedded in this post.
