"When I asked Hersh about this apparent discrepancy, he was dismissive. 'I wasn't there. Somebody could have misspoke. I could have misheard. It's possible there weren't 16,' he said. 'If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.' He did admit that he had made an error during his November 5 interview on CNN, when he said the mission involved 'sixteen helicopter gunships' rather than 16 AC-130s. 'That time I did misspeak,' he said.
"Although The New Yorker says it assigned several fact-checkers to Hersh's article, it would seem that Hersh is once again playing fast and loose with the facts. And what does that say about his central claim of twelve men wounded, three of them seriously? 'That's what my source told me,' he says."