Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash


Democracy Now has the interview Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House, Media Backlash.

Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong.

Before this, I had seen headlines on the internet to vague references to a story we were not supposed to believe. When I saw this headline that Seymour Hersh wrote the story, I realized it was something worth reading about.

As promised in the video, Democracy Now had the link to the London Review Of Books article The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Seymour Hersch.

Seymour Hersh says in the interview that he doesn’t think that when President Obama made his public announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden that he was aware of how much of his words were untrue.

Now, start thinking of President Obama’s assurances that the Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP) does not have the awful things in it that Elizabeth Warren claims the TPP does. How does he know, if he is just going by what his advisers tell him? He claims that the events Warren worries about coming from the TPP are hypothetical, and would never happen. Do you suppose that Elizabeth Warren might actually know more about how big Wall Street banks and big corporations cheat the rest of us than Barack Obama can even imagine?

Can we trust a President who is so naive that he thinks he is in control? He claims he studied law at Harvard University to find out where the levers of power were. We know he is not dumb enough to have come away from that experience without an appreciation of how power is actually exercised. What does he think of our naivete if he thinks we will buy his explanation?

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