Seymour Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on military and intelligence matters. He gained recognition for exposing the My Lai massacre, later exposed the Abu Ghraib scandal, and wrote extensively about intelligence manipulation and failures related to the Iraq War. Hersh was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2014. He has also been alleged to be a Maxwell Mossad asset.