The only problem I have with this story is having a VERY difficult time accepting that the Seals would go along with the phony narrative.
By now, someone in the Seals would have spilled the beans...
The team leader has said that Hersh is full of it, that things went down as claimed.
Here’s the issue....the new story? It comes from one and only one single source. It contains roughly twenty different accounts of what the general narrative has been. If it were just three pieces of the story which was different, and several characters came to back-up this new source....it might be believed.
Think about this....a Hollywood script writer would have to sit down and conceive the acceptable story....write forty pages of text, and then the forty people around the President would have to memorize this text, along with at least 250 military/intelligence personnel who were directly involved in the episode. I won’t say it’s impossible, but it just begs all kinds of questions if this whole new story were completely true.
My humble guess is that three pieces of the new account are somewhat true, and the rest is simply bogus stories.
Congress has launched an investigation of the helicopter crash that killed 30 Americans in Afghanistan, including members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit, The Hill has learned.
The victims’ families say the Pentagon hasn’t provided answers to their many questions about the deadly attack, which took place on Aug. 6, 2011, three months after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by Team 6 forces.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security, told The Hill, “We’re going to dive into this.”
Chaffetz said he met with the victims’ families about a month ago in what he described as an “emotional” gathering. He is poised to send questions to the Pentagon and may hold hearings on the matter.
Charlie Strange, whose son Michael was among those killed, said he asked President Obama two years ago at Dover Air Force Base to fully investigate. The death toll in the crash was the largest of any single incident for the U.S. military during the Afghanistan war.
Dead men tell no tales.