Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"

Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult": "Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Seymour Hersh: 'We've Been Taken Over by a Cult'

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As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote today on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, we hear a speech by Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh on torture from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib to Vietnam. [includes rush transcript] Four British citizens have been released without charge from Guantanamo Bay after nearly 3 years in custody. They are suing the US government for tens of millions of dollars in damages.

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General. As White House counsel, Gonzales helped lay the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

We turn now to Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh first exposed the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in the New Yorker magazine in April 2004 and is author of 'Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.' He spoke last month at the Steven Wise Free Synagogue in New York."