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Seymour (Sy) Myron Hersh is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist and author who has won the Pulitzer Prize. On military and security issues, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine. He's also a "five-time Polk winner and recipient of the 2004 George Orwell Award," having received two National Magazine Awards. He initially garnered international acclaim in 1969 when he exposed the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. His 2004 reporting on the maltreatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib jail by the US military drew a lot of attention.