Posted on 05/11/2015 10:32:02 PM PDT by drewh
One of America’s most revered investigative journalists has questioned the veracity of one of the Obama administration’s proudest achievements — and the firestorm of criticism has been immediate and unforgiving, from the White House to the Pentagon to the CIA.
The publication Sunday of a 10,000-word article questioning the official version of the 2011 raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might have received scant attention had it it not been penned by Seymour Hersh.
The award-winning reporter, 78, who uncovered one of the worst war crimes by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War and disclosed the torture of inmates at the U.S military-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, is now questioning the entire national security bureaucracy in one fell swoop. And its members are taking it personally.
According to Hersh’s article, top Pakistani officials initially did not inform the U.S. about bin Laden’s whereabouts in the hope of using the late Al Qaeda leader as “leverage” in negotiations.
The report also states that Pakistani officials knew about the raid before it happened in May 2011 and instructed those monitoring bin Laden’s compound to allow the SEALs to conduct the operation unobstructed.
Hersh’s story relies heavily on the account of a single unnamed source, referred to as “a retired senior intelligence official who was knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad.”
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Actually, the Seymour Hersh version is more believable and relies on common sense, as apposed to that White House version that comes with a tin foil hat
CNN tried to discredit Hersh’s account in an interview yesterday.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/11/politics/seymour-hersh-obama-bin-laden-raid-lied/
They failed IMHO.
After the Maersk Alabama pirate shoot, I don’t think Obama has had much say with the Navy. There’s no interest in community organizing in Navy ranks. Even less with the enlisted.
Hersh is a left wing nutcracker moonbat.
He has had and still has no credibility.
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