Cover-up, A Review


Having just watched, 'Cover-up,' a documentary about the career of journalist, Seymour Hersh, it feels like we are in a time loop. I could not help compare what Hersh saw and wrote about during the Vietnam War, My Lai, Iraq and Gaza to what is happening today. If you have access to Netflix, I encourage you to watch it. It is painful to watch because like then our current government seems to be built on lies, murder, destruction and illusions. We were never the good guys. We are a facade, cloaked in the bloodied fabric of millions who have died for the satisfaction of the few. 

For me it is painful to again hear about William Calley Jr., who ordered the slaughter of the citizens of My Lai. They shot babies in the head. They threw them into the air to catch on their bayonets. They gang raped women. Then they went home and the government tried to cover it up. But soldiers who witnessed and or took part in the massacre started to speak up. Even then, the government called them liars. If you find Pete Hegseth to be a despicable man, here's another who was just as vile, General William Westmoreland, who resembles our Secretary of War. Calley served just three months for what he did, eventually being pardoned by the other crooked president, Richard Nixon. Story after story, where Hersh seeks the truth, he is vilified by our government. He is threatened by citizens who want to "ship him out." It's all so familiar by what we see today and it is so difficult to believe. Yet, we have seen the images of the Vietnamese families lying in ditches. We have seen images of American soldiers torturing Iraqis sent to Abu Graib. Hersh tears up when he is asked why he still does what he does. He has seen the depths of human depravity. He has listened to sources reveal stories so horrific he keeps them deep inside of him. And yet, truth still matters. As hard as our very own government tries to deflect, deny and lie, there are people willing to defy them. They seek answers and when they find someone willing to share the horrors, they ask, "Why?" 

In this recent regime, the schism has tiny cracks. A few are beginning to leave, most likely for their own self preservation. The jackals still surround and protect their invested interests, but eventually they will turn on each other. I don't have much hope that at some point in the near future one, just one of them, finds their moral compass to speak out. Maybe it's becoming easier to tamp down a conscience. 

Seeing how far back we go as a nation built on lies, camouflage, cover-up, destruction, murder and soulless beings who gave up any remnant of humanity should bring us all to our knees in despair. It is so dark and horrific that in order to get through a day we choose to ignore it. Our minds cannot comprehend the aberration of those who wield power over us. 

Hersh doesn't mention the current administration, but I'm sure he sees the same abhorrent behavior he's witnessed many times in his career. On film Hersh talks with a source in Gaza and someday will share the atrocities inflicted upon innocent people, as man's need to inflict suffering continues.


If this documentary isn't available for you, he also writes on Substack. 

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