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Journalist: White House lied about bin Laden raid

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  • Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh contends that White House concealed real story of Osama bin Laden raid
  • Peter Bergen: The evidence strongly suggests that Hersh's account is false
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad." Watch Bergen and Seymour Hersh discuss the Osama bin Laden killing at 8 p.m. ET Monday on CNN's "AC360°."

(CNN)Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism. Early in his career he broke the story of the My Lai massacre during which hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam in 1968.

Hersh was still going strong after 9/11, breaking (along with "60 Minutes") the story of the prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq for The New Yorker in 2004.

Now comes another blockbuster from Hersh in which he asserts, "The White House's story (about the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden) might have been written by Lewis Carroll."


Was there a cover-up in bin Laden killing? (Opinion) - CNN.com
 
Story highlights
  • Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh contends that White House concealed real story of Osama bin Laden raid
  • Peter Bergen: The evidence strongly suggests that Hersh's account is false
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad." Watch Bergen and Seymour Hersh discuss the Osama bin Laden killing at 8 p.m. ET Monday on CNN's "AC360°."

(CNN)Seymour Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism. Early in his career he broke the story of the My Lai massacre during which hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam in 1968.

Hersh was still going strong after 9/11, breaking (along with "60 Minutes") the story of the prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq for The New Yorker in 2004.

Now comes another blockbuster from Hersh in which he asserts, "The White House's story (about the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden) might have been written by Lewis Carroll."


Was there a cover-up in bin Laden killing? (Opinion) - CNN.com

the bin laden "raid" may have been created to divert attention of the world away from the nato bombardment-murder of one of muammar gaddafi's son and three grandchildren just a day before the raid.

from ( Gaddafi family deaths reinforce doubts about Nato's UN mandate | World news | The Guardian )...
Nato is facing urgent questions about the legality of its air strike on a Gaddafi family compound at the weekend, which the Libyan government said had killed the leader's second youngest son, 29-year old Saif al-Arab, and three grandchildren under 12. The grandchildren were not named.

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, said in Caracas: "There is no doubt the order was given to kill Gaddafi. It doesn't matter who else is killed … this is a murder."
 
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