Article Added On: January 27, 2005 - over 7 years ago
Title: Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
Author: Mayumi Futamura
Publication Date: January 01, 2005 - over 7 years ago
Faith Groups: Other
Themes: religion in politics

Abstract: Speaking at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalists, said the U.S. government has "been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."

January 27, 2005

Speaking at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalists, said the U.S. government has "been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."

There's a lot of anxiety and tremendous sense of fear inside the professional military and intelligence people because they know what is really going on, said Hersh in the speech, aired in the radio show DemocracyNow! on Jan. 26, 2005.

In Washington, "We are nowhere, the press is nowhere. The congress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, 'Who is going to tell them we have no clothes?' Nobody is going to do it. Everybody is afraid to tell Rumsfeld anything. That's just the way it is. It's a system built on fear. It's not lack of integrity, it's more profound than that. ... It's a system that's completely been taken over -- by cultists."

The new bill, which was provoked by the 9/11 committee, consolidates "an awful lot of power in the Pentagon." Hersh warned. It gives Rumsfeld the right to do things that he has been wanting to do--manhunting and killing "them" before "they" kill us, as Peter said.

"'They did it to us. We