PERLE AND HERSH: So far,

PERLE AND HERSH: So far, much of the commentary about Sy Hersh’s great article in this week’s New Yorker about Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle has dealt with Perle’s out-of-control accusation on CNN that Hersh is “the nearest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.” But I think what people really need to focus on is the content of what Hersh writes about Perle’s involvement in businesses that are almost certain to benefit from the super-access he has to classified information. He is, lest we forget, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.
So read the piece, here, and learn how Perle set up this firm, Trireme, dealing with homeland security issues, shortly after 9/11; and how later he apparently tried to shake down the Saudis for some lucrative contracts; etc etc.
You have to believe the New Yorker would have pored over the text word by word with their lawyers before they published it. The account is truly devastating to Perle. Indeed, what Hersh tells us about Perle would have been shocking if our moral sensibilities had not already been dulled by the full-scale political rehabiltiations we’ve seen already of Elliott Abrams, Michael Ledeeen, Oliver North, John Poindexter, and so many other Reagan-era felons and slimeballs.