From an article about Seymour Hersch's allegation that John F. Kennedy was already married, and not divorced, when he married Jacqui (for which, there was no evidence except Hersch's article), this criticism was leveled about that and about many of Hersch's "exposés:"

"Some have criticized Hersh's use of anonymous sources in his reporting, implying that some of these sources are unreliable or even made up. In a review of Hersh's book, Chain of Command, commentator Amir Taheri wrote, "As soon as he has made an assertion he cites a 'source' to back it. In every case this is either an un-named former official or an unidentified secret document passed to Hersh in unknown circumstances... By my count Hersh has anonymous 'sources' inside 30 foreign governments and virtually every department of the U.S. government."

Hersch may be a Pulitzer Prize winner, but many of his "exposés" are highly questionable.

Don Firth