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 Ladens death.
This decision, Hersh argues in the London Review of Books, forced the military and intelligence communities to scramble and then collaborate the presidents 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 administrations 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 Ladens presence in Abottabad.
Hershs source alleged that the Pakistani government had an active role in approving and implementing the raid on bin Ladens 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.
Obamas speech was put together in a rush, Hersh wrote of Obamas 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 wasnt 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 Obamas advisers response to his speech on the raid, Hersh wrote.
Hershs 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 Ladens death.
The White House did not comment on Hershs claims.
Thats my point exactly. The non muslim troops of our military, at best, saw a roll of towels, the whole Koran approved body prep was all conducted by muslims etc. One may as well have said that Venusian scholars on leave from their orbital platform in witnessed the process and it would have as much proof/validity as the official description of what went down. There is zero proof that there were even scrap meat from dinner prep in the roll of towels that went over the transom. Or that muslim sailors ever touched a dead body of any kind. Or...
IIRC Trump was causing a lot of clamor about Obama’s BC and it was beginning to get traction. This blew it off the front pages. I doubt it was the real Bin Laden, just a stand in to be used when need for just such a purpose.
Everything about Obama is a fabrication.
“Isnt the word corroborate?”
Yes! You beat me to it, as I was checking definitions just to be sure.
Her Royal Non-Electedness and President, Valerie Jarrett was supposedly the one who stopped our idiot (p)resident from going after OBL. The whole thing is disgusting. And I don't believe for a minute that OBL is dead or in the ocean.
There's not a thing that this dis-administration has not lied about.
crackhead bendoverbathhouseboy.......a joke on America by the Libtards
In order to save everyone time, just tell me what he didn't lie about.
yup- Hirsch was the same guy who wrote six months before the end of the Bush presidency that GWB was running covert operations in Iran and would start a war with the country before he left office...the left wing carried him on their shoulders for that one....they’ll eat him alive over this current story...
One thing is true, Obama DID rush to take credit. IIRC, it was 10pm on a Sunday night. Very bizarre behavior.
I have also thought that the killing of those Seal Team 6 guys in that helicopter in Pakistan was to make sure they never spoke about it.
Obama lies about everything.
Collaborate or corroborate?
Has ibama ever told the truth. Oh, wait he said “fundamentally transform America” and “redistributive change”
And you can bet your last dollar that if the raid had failed, Dear Leader already knew who’d get thrown under the bus.
“More likely dead under Tora Bora.”
Yep.
And I don’t believe they captured him in the raid. Dead or alive. It may have been a body double like they often use for Fidel. Have you notice over the years the photos of Fidel changing drastically for the better?
Think they planned the same thing with Chavez, but something went wrong.
May all of those Totalitarian bastards meet their true maker and rot in hell.
Part of me thinks they got him at TB, part of me thinks he was never there.
None of me thinks any of the narrative from Bush (post Tora) or Barry is close to the truth in light of how well it led to muslim colonization and the iron hand of thought policing, NSA activities etc.
What a shock!...Hard to believe.../sarc
So 0bama lied again and this is news?
I’m telling you that a complete revolution is needed or we are screwed!
Both parties need a good Douchin!
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