Seymour Hersh hit the airwaves this morning on “Meet the Press” and is scheduled tonight on I didn’t watch “Meet the Press” because it had Colin Powell about to do his spiel. Having just In any case, an early glimpse of the book was offered in Sunday’s New York Times in a news
\n“Dateline NBC” to talk about (OK, promote) his new book “Chain of Command:
\nThe Road from 9\/11 to Abu Ghraib,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> which is being released Monday.
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\nseen his non-responsive interview with George Stephanopoulos an hour earlier on “This Week,” I
\nthought, “No point in listening to that<\/I> all over again.” Wish I’d known Hersh was
\nscheduled, too (along with Bob Woodward). So I’ll tune in tonight to catch him on “Dateline.”
\n(West Coasters still have a chance to tune in to “Meet the Press” this morning.)<\/P>
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\nstory headlined, “New Book Says Bush Officials Were Told of
\nDetainee Abuse.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Among other things, it reports:<\/P>
\nMr. Hersh asserts that a Central Intelligence Agency analyst who visited the
\ndetention center at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba, in the late summer of 2002 filed a report of abuses
\nthere that drew the attention of Gen. John A. Gordon, a deputy to Condoleezza Rice, the White
\nHouse national security adviser. But when General Gordon called the matter to her attention and
\nshe discussed it with other senior officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, no
\nsignificant change resulted.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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