US generals supplied Syria with intel over ISIS to avoid toppling Assad – Seymour Hersh
Dec 24, 2015: The Pentagons Joint Chiefs of Staff has been indirectly providing Syrian military with intelligence on Islamic extremists fearing the Obama administrations agenda to oust Bashar Assad will engender total chaos in Syria. A new investigation in the London Review of Books by renowned American journalist Seymour M. Hersh exposes the divide between the US top brass and the politicians in the White House when it comes to dealing with Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.
Seymour Hersh Awards, honors and associations
His journalism and publishing awards include the 1970 Pulitzer Prize, the 2004 National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, two National Magazine Awards, 5 George Polk Awards - making him that award's most honored laureate - and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting:
1969: George Polk Special Award (for his My Lai reporting)
1970: Pulitzer Prize for his book My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath.
1973: George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting; Scripps-Howard Public Service Award; Sidney Hillman Award
1974: George Polk Award for National Reporting
1975: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
1981: George Polk Award for National Reporting
1983: National Book Critics Circle Award for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.
2003: National Magazine Award for Public Interest for his articles "Lunch with the Chairman", "Selective Intelligence", and "The Stovepipe".
2004: following Hersh's 2004 articles in the New Yorker magazine exposing the Abu Ghraib scandal: National Magazine Award for Public Interest, Overseas Press Club Award, National Press Foundation's Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, and his fifth George Polk Award.
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