Hersh: You haven't begun to see evil until you've seen some of these pictures that haven't come out,': "There are still prisons the public doesn't know about, he says. Secret prisons. 'I would guess -- I don't have it pure -- but we're basically in the disappearing business,' he tells his U. of C. audience.
Hersh is worried that America doesn't have good intelligence within the Iraqi insurgency. 'We don't know what's going to happen next,' he says. 'We have no endgame.'

Whether you agree with him or not, this kind of frankness makes Hersh an anomaly among his tightly buttoned investigative peers.

'The fragility of our government is terrifying,' he tells his U. of C. audience. A handful of neoconservatives took control of the levers of government 'without a peep from the bureaucracy, the Congress, the press,' he says. 'It was so easy. . . . What is it about us that made us so vulnerable to these people?'"
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