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Report: Obama lied about bin Laden raid
The Hill ^ | May 10, 2015 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 05/10/2015 12:44:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

An expose published on Sunday alleges that President Obama deceived Americans with his narrative of the 2011 assassination of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Author Seymour M. Hersh accuses Obama of rushing to take credit for bin Laden’s death.

This decision, Hersh argues in the London Review of Books, forced the military and intelligence communities to scramble and then collaborate the president’s version of events.

“High-level lying nonetheless remains the modus operandi of U.S. policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no,” Hersh wrote of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies.

Hersh based his report on a single, anonymous source.

This individual, he said, is a “retired senior intelligence official who was knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abottabad.”

Hersh’s source alleged that the Pakistani government had an active role in approving and implementing the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

In addition, the source said that the Obama administration originally agreed to announce bin Laden had been killed in a drone strike rather than shot during an active Special Forces mission.

“Obama’s speech was put together in a rush,” Hersh wrote of Obama’s announcement of Operation Neptune Spear to Americans.

“This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following,” he added.

“This was not the fog of war,” Hersh quoted his anonymous source as saying.

“The fact that there was an agreement with the Pakistanis and no contingency analysis of what was to be disclosed if something went wrong – that wasn’t even discussed,” Hersh quoted his source as saying.

“And once it went wrong, they had to make up a new cover story on the fly,” the source said of Obama’s advisers’ response to his speech on the raid, Hersh wrote.

Hersh’s report also accuses the Obama administration of embellishing the details of the raid itself and presenting al Qaeda as a bigger threat than it actually was before bin Laden’s death.

The White House did not comment on Hersh’s claims.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; binladen; lipsmovinglying; obama; obamaobl; obldead; oblraid; pakistan; rop; seymourhersh; seymourmhersh
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1 posted on 05/10/2015 12:44:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw Obama’s speech. His lips were moving.

So, I already knew.


2 posted on 05/10/2015 12:46:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("It's not easy being drunk all the time; everyone would do it, if it were easy.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

well, well, well - the CIA strikes back


3 posted on 05/10/2015 12:46:54 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But, Seymour! Obama is YOURS.


4 posted on 05/10/2015 12:47:59 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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5 posted on 05/10/2015 12:49:05 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t the word “corroborate?”


6 posted on 05/10/2015 12:49:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama lied? Say it ain’t so!

Surely, he simply misspoke. Or was quoted out-of-context. Or his statement was too ‘nuanced’ for us simpletons to grasp.


7 posted on 05/10/2015 12:49:48 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was he photoshopped into that picture?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html


8 posted on 05/10/2015 12:50:30 PM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many more lies are there about the operation? Could the guy still be alive and in custody?


9 posted on 05/10/2015 12:51:28 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Carthego delenda est

Just like Sandy Hook, birth certificate et al, everything was a planned illusion and absolute lie.


10 posted on 05/10/2015 12:53:02 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Will we soon learn more about why they refused to show Bin Ladin’s dead body?


11 posted on 05/10/2015 12:55:45 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: McGruff

Here’s a photoshop...

http://www.funny-potato.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/barack-osama.jpg


12 posted on 05/10/2015 12:56:52 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Suit Jacket draped over Obama’s Golf Shirt in the Bunker Photo gave me a clue.


13 posted on 05/10/2015 12:56:52 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: McGruff
I'm not sure about that photo, but THIS photo is authentic.


14 posted on 05/10/2015 12:57:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia. A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. -- Andrew Cummins)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s dancing around the fact that Osama’s location was known for a long while before the raid. It was probably the best ‘bugged’ location in history. The value of the info was enormous.

Of course he had to be killed but it was no easy decision for professional anti-terrorists.


15 posted on 05/10/2015 12:57:16 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama is well behind the REMF’s where ever it is that community organizers hide out while men do the tough work. This is no surprise at all. The SEALS punched his ticket though for inter-service rivalry sake I would have preferred an PFC 11B did it. Not Obama.


16 posted on 05/10/2015 12:57:55 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Carthego delenda est

More likely dead under Tora Bora. But if he did survive that, there is NO FRIGGIN WAY he remained alive after The Imaculated declared him dead. Not even Jarret could spin him suddenly emerging anywhere alive.

He’s dead. Just a matter of how and where.


17 posted on 05/10/2015 12:57:59 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Carthego delenda est

He’s either a skeleton in some cave or snoozing in a hammock in Moo’s garden but the one place he isn’t is at the bottom of the ocean.


18 posted on 05/10/2015 12:59:00 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Mistakes were made”


19 posted on 05/10/2015 12:59:23 PM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
0bama lied, film at 11.

Is this news?

Maybe I'm missing something?

5.56mm

20 posted on 05/10/2015 12:59:39 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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