Have you read Seymour Hersh's article contradicting the Obama WH version of bin Laden's killing?
here's the very long article:
The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Seymour M. Hersh
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
excerpts:
One lie that has endured is that the Seals had to fight their way to their target. Only two Seals have made any public statement: No Easy Day, a first-hand account of the raid by Matt Bissonnette, was published in September 2012; and two years later Rob O’Neill was interviewed by Fox News. Both men had resigned from the navy; both had fired at bin Laden. Their accounts contradicted each other on many details, but their stories generally supported the White House version, especially when it came to the need to kill or be killed as the Seals fought their way to bin Laden. O’Neill even told Fox News that he and his fellow Seals thought ‘We were going to die.’ ‘The more we trained on it, the more we realised … this is going to be a one-way mission.’
But the retired official told me that in their initial debriefings the Seals made no mention of a firefight, or indeed of any opposition. The drama and danger portrayed by Bissonnette and O’Neill met a deep-seated need, the retired official said: ‘Seals cannot live with the fact that they killed bin Laden totally unopposed, and so there has to be an account of their courage in the face of danger. The guys are going to sit around the bar and say it was an easy day? That’s not going to happen.’
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Five days after the raid the Pentagon press corps was provided with a series of videotapes that were said by US officials to have been taken from a large collection the Seals had removed from the compound, along with as many as 15 computers. Snippets from one of the videos showed a solitary bin Laden looking wan and wrapped in a blanket, watching what appeared to be a video of himself on television. An unnamed official told reporters that the raid produced a ‘treasure trove … the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever’, which would provide vital insights into al-Qaida’s plans. The official said the material showed that bin Laden ‘remained an active leader in al-Qaida, providing strategic, operational and tactical instructions to the group … He was far from a figurehead and continued to direct even tactical details of the group’s management and to encourage plotting’ from what was described as a command-and-control centre in Abbottabad. ‘He was an active player, making the recent operation even more essential for our nation’s security,’ the official said. The information was so vital, he added, that the administration was setting up an inter-agency task force to process it: ‘He was not simply someone who was penning al-Qaida strategy. He was throwing operational ideas out there and he was also specifically directing other al-Qaida members.’
These claims were fabrications: there wasn’t much activity for bin Laden to exercise command and control over. The retired intelligence official said that the CIA’s internal reporting shows that since bin Laden moved to Abbottabad in 2006 only a handful of terrorist attacks could be linked to the remnants of bin Laden’s al-Qaida. ‘We were told at first,’ the retired official said, ‘that the Seals produced garbage bags of stuff and that the community is generating daily intelligence reports out of this stuff. And then we were told that the community is gathering everything together and needs to translate it. But nothing has come of it. Every single thing they have created turns out not to be true. It’s a great hoax – like the Piltdown man.’ The retired official said that most of the materials from Abbottabad were turned over to the US by the Pakistanis, who later razed the building. The ISI took responsibility for the wives and children of bin Laden, none of whom was made available to the US for questioning.
‘Why create the treasure trove story?’ the retired official said. ‘The White House had to give the impression that bin Laden was still operationally important. Otherwise, why kill him? A cover story was created – that there was a network of couriers coming and going with memory sticks and instructions. All to show that bin Laden remained important.’
read more: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
I want to say that I very much like and appreciate Seymour Hersh's writing; especially on the Bush administration. I may well have a bias favoring the Obama administration (although I've strongly opposed their military foreign policy and disputed their accounts and reasoning on MANY occasions over his presidency), but I find Hersh's account incredible. If true, there's a major hoax that's been perpetrated by President Obama on down in his administration and military which deserves much more than mere rebuke; if true, it deserves an investigation and Congressional censure of some sort for the lies Hersh is claiming occurred.
That said, I also find that much of his account looks based on unnamed sources and so much of his and others conjecture that much of it reads like fiction. Example of this are similar to the passages I highlighted in bold above.
I would like to hear what folks here think. I'm in absolutely no position to refute Seymour Hersh's account in his article and I'm not going to set myself up as a defender of his story, or that of the administration. I'll only say that it reads like a fantastical version of events which I'm certain will get a great deal of pushback by the administration, and, likely, the President. That's understandable, because Hersh makes Barack Obama, as well as members of the military and military leadership, look like utter frauds.
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telling the truth here.
As far a Mr. Hersch goes even a broken clock is correct twice day. This story has got so many holes in it, Un-sourced, Retired? C'mon folks really? Give me a name(s). Also, Mr. Source(s), grow some and come out and say it in public. Heck, Snowden even had the guts to name himself.
Honestly, I would really love it, if, as according to Hersch there wasn't any resistance, that OBL was sound asleep, or even kneeling in prayer when the last thing that crossed his mind was that bullet from an M4. That fucker deserved everything he had coming. I hope the seals threw his body out of the helicopter over the mountains so that the animals would devour it, that is what he deserved.
I can't believe that the OP really suggests Congressional hearings on the way the Military offed OBL...... boo hoo poor OBL didn't deserve to die like that. Let me tell you something.....yes he did. A bad guy is gone, and people here are whining? So the administration has polished it up? Big deal. At least they got him unlike others..........
Hobo
Flame away!!!!
Because maybe, someone, somewhere, may not be telling the entire truth. 
Let's see some evidence, okay? If Hersh is simply going to publish gossip columns now, he should have the guts to identify it as such.
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