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Explosive Report: Seymour Hersh Says Obama Administration Lied About Bin Laden Raid
Slate.com ^ | MAY 10 2015 9:44 PM | Seth Maxon

Posted on 05/11/2015 1:50:45 PM PDT by drewh

Citing interviews with “a retired senior intelligence official who was knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad” and American sources who “had access to corroborating information,” Hersh writes that the American government did not act alone in locating and killing Bin Laden, as it has consistently claimed.

On the contrary, Hersh’s sources say that senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI)—Pakistan’s equivalent of the CIA—knew as early as 2006 that Bin Laden was in Abbottabad, and cooperated with the U.S. in the assassination. Specifically, the story says that top Pakistani Army Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI, knew Bin Laden’s location and knew about the Abbottabad raid before it took place.

Among the report’s most explosive claims is that the U.S. did not find Bin Laden by tracking his couriers, as the government and most official accounts have reported. Instead, according to the Hersh report, the U.S. paid a $25 million reward to an unnamed former senior Pakistani intelligence officer who “betrayed the secret” of Bin Laden’s whereabouts. Hersh’s report says that this officer was relocated to Washington, D.C. and now works as a consultant for the CIA.

The story also claims that Bin Laden’s burial at sea never happened, that Bin Laden was an invalid when the SEALs raided the compound and killed him, and that there was no firefight at all during the SEAL raid. Additionally, Hersh’s account says that the ISI captured and set bin Laden up in Abbottabad in the first place, to use him as “leverage” in the country’s dealings with al-Qaida and the Taliban.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alreadyposted; pakistan; sethmaxon; seymourhersh; seymourmhersh; slate
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1 posted on 05/11/2015 1:50:45 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Obama lies, and that’s “explosive?” Tell me another one.


2 posted on 05/11/2015 1:52:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: drewh

I wanna see less Hersh.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 1:54:01 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: drewh

If Obola (BC unknown, SS# forged) EVER told the truth,
THAT would be real News.

This is SSDD, supported by the Treasonous MSM
(where all REAL journalists are made the Enemy).


4 posted on 05/11/2015 1:54:18 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: drewh

Is there anyone either (a) not committed to a mental institution or (b) who has at least one functioning brain cell who does not realize that Clown Prince nobama is a chronic malignant liar? “Explosive”??????? More like “expected” and “typical”.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 1:54:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Steely Tom

Beat me to it!

Exactly what is “explosive” about this?


6 posted on 05/11/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by Obadiah (This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
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To: drewh
This doesn't look like a real dis to the Obama administration.

This seems like the administration's attempt to cover for officers in the Pakistani government.

So we knew where Bin Laden was in 2006 and could have killed him then, but didn't. On the face of it it seems suspicious, but it could just have been part of our plan to keep the Pakistani's on our side as we launched waves of drone attacks against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

If Bin Laden wasn't much of a threat at that time, then no need to kill him.

This smells more of realpolitik than Obama incompetence or untrustworthiness.

Maybe in the long run it would have been better for this to have been kept quiet. We'll see what happens with relations with Pakistan over the next few months.

7 posted on 05/11/2015 1:56:58 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: drewh

Headlines will be made when he tells the truth!


8 posted on 05/11/2015 1:57:10 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: drewh

How do we know Bin Laden is even dead? Anybody see any evidence? Not me.


9 posted on 05/11/2015 1:58:13 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Where’s the Death Certificate?


10 posted on 05/11/2015 2:00:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
correct, this sounds like damage control because the Pakis were keeping him as a virtual prisoner there since 2006.

Hersh also says the local military cut the power grid the night of the assault... http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

11 posted on 05/11/2015 2:00:37 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Dislike and never trust the vile Obama to tell the truth, but Seymour Hersch is psychotic and chronically delusional.


12 posted on 05/11/2015 2:01:08 PM PDT by allendale
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To: drewh

So much for the guy who says “I Killed Bin Laden”


13 posted on 05/11/2015 2:01:58 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: drewh

THEY HAVE LIED about everything from DAY 1.


14 posted on 05/11/2015 2:02:01 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: dfwgator

Death certificate is being held in s top secret location next to the real birth certificate.


15 posted on 05/11/2015 2:02:55 PM PDT by kempster
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To: yetidog

Hersh says there were no machine guns at the compound because it was controlled by the Pakistan military. But that doesn’t mean that we didnt have to take out his sons...


16 posted on 05/11/2015 2:04:54 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Knock me.over with a feather


17 posted on 05/11/2015 2:05:14 PM PDT by BRL
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To: drewh

Not ONE word of official account of raid that killed Bin Laden is true. Seymour Hersh[2013]

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media[2013]


18 posted on 05/11/2015 2:07:16 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: drewh

Barack Obama would steal credit from his own mother or daughter.


19 posted on 05/11/2015 2:07:35 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: dfwgator; GrandJediMasterYoda

worst cover story ever! (muslim burial ‘with honours’ at sea) by the US Navy


20 posted on 05/11/2015 2:09:19 PM PDT by drewh
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