Investigative
Journalist Hersh Claims Obama Lied About Bin Laden Raid
by Lee Stranahan11 May 2015
Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning left-wing
investigative journalist, is accusing Pres. Obama of lying about the raid that
killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in
a 10,000
word piece on the London Review of Books.
The article, which was released Sunday, was so widely read
that it crashed the LRoB’s website briefly.
Hersh’s story describes a politically obsessed President Obama rushing to get word out about the raid over the
objections of key officials like Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Hersh
points out that the bin Laden raid “was the high point of Obama’s first term,
and a major factor in his re-election.”
Hersh’s other main claim involves the knowledge of Pakistani
officials. Hersh says the Obama administration claimed:
that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and
Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance.
This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s
account.
Appearing on CNN Monday morning, Hersh strongly defended
the story from attacks by host Chris Cuomo and CNN Security Analyst Peter
Bergen, who
wrote a lengthy rebuttal for CNN.
Responding to the charge that his article was based
primarily on just one single, anonymous source, veteran reporter Hersh told
Cuomo he had “vet[ted] and verify[ied]” his reporting with other sources.
Bergen claims Hersh’s argument is essentially a massive
conspiracy theory, calling it “farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a
multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts and simple common sense.”
In his criticism, however, Bergen notes
that the Obama administration made false statement right after the
raid.
In his article, Hersh correctly points out that in the
immediate aftermath of the bin Laden raid, White House officials initially made
some false statements about the raid — for instance, that bin Laden was using
his wives as human shields during the raid — but these were quickly corrected.
Hersh says the reason for the inaccuracies is that President
Obama wanted to take immediate credit for the raid. Hersh said that the initial
plan was to announce the death of bin Laden about a week later, but Hersh
writes:
Obama’s speech was put together in a rush, the retired
official said, and was viewed by his advisers as a political document, not a
message that needed to be submitted for clearance to the national security
bureaucracy. This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create
chaos in the weeks following.
Hersh quotes from Robert Gate’s book
Duty about how upset Gates was that President Obama decided to push
narrative in order to take credit.
That we killed him, I said, is all we needed to say. Everybody
in that room agreed to keep mum on details. That commitment lasted about five
hours. The initial leaks came from the White House and CIA. They just couldn’t
wait to brag and to claim credit. The facts were often wrong… Nonetheless the
information just kept pouring out. I was outraged and at one point, told the
national security adviser, Tom Donilon, ‘Why doesn’t everybody just
shut the fuck up?’ To no avail.
Hersh reports others were also incensed by President
Obama’s approach to organizing and delivering the speech:
Gates wasn’t the only official who was distressed by Obama’s
decision to speak without clearing his remarks in advance, the retired official
said, ‘but he was the only one protesting. Obama didn’t just double-cross
Gates, he double-crossed everyone.
The White house has yet to comment on the report, but
expect the Hersh piece to be the subject of discussion in the days to come.
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H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee
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