On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:54:40 -0600, Dan Minette
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> He does.  But, those contacts also use him in internal political games.

Agreed.

> 
> >If he reported there was a number of American deaths in an Afghan
> operation
> > count on it.
> 
> If so, I wonder why the families still don't know their loved ones are
> dead....three years later.  He reported on massive casualties early in the
> war, and we never ever saw them.

I cannot comment on this becuase you have provided no means of
ascertaining what Hersh actually reported.


> 
> FWIW, I maintain an informal running tally on "inside information"
> statements by various people.  I've seen Hearsh make statements that should
> have been verifyable later...but were not verified....the predictions just
> faded away.   I think it strains credibility to think that the US
> government could cover up massive losses of American soldiers for more than
> a couple of weeks.

Can you provide that tally and the original stories?   JDG once sent
me fruitlessly searching after something he stated a public figure had
said many years before and I was never able to verify it.

Gary Denton
http://elemming2.blogspot.com
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