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.
No, the mythical line that cannot be crossed, no matter which party you belong to, has been crossed. I’ve been watching media reports and it’s not a tidal wave anytime soon, but there is a shift coming - appropriately too lated to really do anything.
But even his buddies aren’t happy with BO.
show.us.the.body.
"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... based his report on a single, anonymous source... alleged that the Pakistani government had an active role in approving and implementing the raid on bin Laden's compound.As much as I agree that Zero is a Liar, this appears to stink to high heaven.
Following from the behind is not not leading.
DEAD give away when all the Seals involved were “shot down by Muslims”. Obama is a demon and so are the military men who serve hm in this capacity.
He's also a 9/11 truther. He's a left wing kook and should be treated as such.
I agree. They were killed for a reason by their own CIC. Sick
If such was the case, either ‘they’ got everybody with any knowledge of the treasonous activity, or there is someone issuing even greater threats who has the power to see them through.
That's why no one could see him like we saw Saddam Hussein.
Remember too all this happened when the news about Obama’s fake birth certificate was going viral.
Although once the raid happened, then it all went away.....
Why is The Hill reporting this? They love Obama.
Someone better tell Matt Bissonnette and Robert O'Neill that they are dead...since ALL the seals involved were shot down by Muslims”. For dead guys, they sure do a lot of talking...
Very old “news” http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2011/08/bin-laden-turned-in-by-informant-courier-was-cover-story.html
Yep, a calculated lie to just get him enough votes of gullible fools to get re-elected.
They probably had to collaborate in order to decide on which story to use in order to “corroborate”...
IMHO, the whole story was way too convenient for everybody. I couldn’t believe that everyone just accepted the “buried at sea” without laughing out loud.
Bin Laden was dead years before. Probably from kidney failure.
A must read.
Sorry, you are right. It irks me to no end that they were shot down like that. I think Obama’s friends, the Pakis, informed on their travel plans and set them up.
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