Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.\n\n \u201cThe government had denied everything we said. We just asked them and they said, \u2018Oh no, not true, not true.\u2019 That\u2019s just\u2014it\u2019s all pro forma. You ask them to get their lie and you write their lie. I\u2019m sorry to be so cynical about it, but that\u2019s basically what it comes to.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Johnson & Johnson, Freshbooks, Trunk Club, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\nHersh on Longform\n[2:00] The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Verso \u2022 2016)\n[15:00] "The My Lai Massacre" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch \u2022 Nov 1969)\n[15:00] "The Scene of the Crime"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2015)\n[21:00] "Defending the Arsenal" (New Yorker \u2022 Nov 2009)\n[22:00] "The Deal" (New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2004)\n[27:00] "Whose Sarin?" (London Review of Books \u2022 Dec 2013)\n[28:00] "The Red Line and the Rat Line" (London Review of Books \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[33:00] "The Killing of Osama bin Laden" (London Review of Books \u2022 May 2015)\n[36:00] Zero Dark Thirty\n[40:00] The Longform Guide to Nurses\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices