Truthdig: Seymour Hersh Stands by His bin Laden Story, and His Sources

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Truthdig May 18, 2015 By Bill Boyarsky

With the Obama administration having prosecuted more national security leakers than any other, anonymous sources are the only way Americans can find out how their government is waging its secret war on terror. That’s why journalist Seymour Hersh deserves congratulations rather than condemnation for his story on the killing of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden.


President Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd as he arrives to speak to CIA employees at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., on May 20, 2011. In his speech, Obama congratulated the country’s intelligence workers for the effort that led to the killing of the terrorist Osama bin Laden. (AP / Carolyn Kaster)

There’s been criticism of Hersh, much of it centering on his use of anonymous sources. But if you read Hersh’s story closely and check what others have written, you’ll see that his account holds up. The report was published in the May 21 edition of the London Review of Books.

I talked to Hersh by telephone Monday morning. He told me he began working on the story immediately after the U.S. raid on the bin Laden compound in Pakistan. He said he doubted, from the beginning, the administration’s account of the death of bin Laden on May 2, 2011, at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs. The administration said the SEALs shot their way into the compound, near two Pakistani military installations in Abbottabad, and killed the terrorist leader.

“I knew after the raid there was a problem,” Hersh said. He said he was tipped off by someone in the administration that the problem was in the accounts of the raid given by President Barack Obama and some of his aides...
Complete article: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/seymour_hersh_on_bin_laden_story_anonymous_sources_20150518

From the comments:

Ellen Hanson • a day ago

The original story of the raid was preposterous from the start, including the burial at sea, the in flight DNA testing, and the 'face recognition software' ID. The fully controlled media reported all as fact however, without any verification whatever. There should have been an immediate congressional investigation. There should be a congressional investigation now. Let's take the govt.'s version as fact, then it should be prosecuted as a war crime by an international court.

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