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...Hersh didn't want to discuss the question much further. He works for The Times, after all, where people print what they see fit to print and say what they see fit to say, and he didn't want to talk about the controversy with outsiders. He said that as long as he worked for The Times, he should keep it "in the family...
...Seymour Hersh, The New York Times reporter who first learned of the salvage operation, disagrees. "I wish they [The Times] had published this story without the cover of Jack Anderson taking all the heat," he said Wednesday...
...Americans, the seniors have a less charismatic but still meritorious group to choose from. Roger Baldwin '04, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, will probably be in town for Commencement anyway. Henry Aaron may be swinging through, too, now that he's over in the American League. Seymour Hersh, Margaret Mead, United Mine Workers president Arnold Miller, or Reps. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) or Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) might be more predictable, but they would certainly represent a step up from Richardson...
...York Times surely deserves credit for its expose of the CIA's domestic snooping operation (TIME, Jan. 6). But just in case not enough credit might be forthcoming from others, the Times itself is reminding everyone that congratulations are due. In the first 18 days after Correspondent Seymour Hersh broke the story, the paper ran 32 CIA-related articles and managed to mention its own scoop 38 times...
...Hersh takes an almost jaunty view of his forays: "Being an investigative reporter is like being a freak. You're trying to get information other people don't want you to have. I don't make deals, I don't party and drink with sources, and I don't play a game of leaks. I read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story...