U.S. Officials Panic About Seymour Hersh Story; Then Deny His Claims Using Jedi Mind Tricks

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What really struck me last evening as I was reading Seymour Hersh’s article exposing the bin Laden raid story as a farce, was the fact that it answered in detail so many of the questions I’ve had about the raid over the years. For example:

In 2012, I wrote the post: New Emails Say No Sailors Watched Bin Laden’s Burial at Sea

This was followed up in 2013 with: U.S. Government’s Secret Move to Hide Files on the Osama Bin Laden Raid

Then, finally in 2014: The U.S. Military Ordered Bin Laden Photos Destroyed 10 Days After Freedom of Information Act Request

Commenting on the burial aspect of this White House fairytale, I noted:

The Osama Bin Laden raid was suspect from the very beginning.  Not only were key initial descriptions of the assault completely incorrect (such as him being armed and his wife being killed), but the manner in which his body was rapidly tossed into the ocean was beyond bizarre.  I mean, Tony Soprano keeps a body longer than that.

What’s even more incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic attempt to deny it. Officials are basically responding by saying things like “you’d have to believe the government would lie to you,” and “there are too many inaccuracies to respond to all of them.

For example, Politico reports that:

First from the CIA’s former top spokesperson:

“If you were to believe Sy you would have to believe this massive conspiracy that President Obama, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, and Mike Morell were all lying to you,” said Bill Harlow, the agency’s former top spokesman, referring to two recent secretaries of defense and a former acting CIA director. “It makes absolutely no sense.”

Someone on Twitter summarized the nonsensical nature of this perfectly with the following tweet:

The Politico story then becomes even more surreal, and embarrassing. The WhiteHouse National Security spokesman claims:

“There are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one,” White House National Security spokesman Ned Price said in a statement to reporters early Monday. Later, at the daily White House briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest chimed in, saying the report was full of “inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.”

Come again? You’d think they’d be more than happy to fact check and offer proof of inaccuracies in order to restore faith in apple pie, rigged markets and overall American awesomeness.

But it wasn’t just Mr. Price who took this tactic. The Defense Department also resorted to Jedi mind tricks:

“There are too many inaccuracies to even bother going through them line by line,” Col. Steve Warren, a department spokesman, told reporters of the Hersh piece, whcih appeared in the London Review of Books. “But there should be no question that this was a unilateral action and it was conducted in accordance with all standing laws of armed conflict. The public record on the operation there is clear. The president announced it within 24 hours of completion of it, and there is nothing to add to what the president’s already said. This article appears, from where I sit, to be largely a fabrication. I’m too busy to waste my time with it.”

Think about the similarities of those two statements. These are talking points, and not very clever ones at that.

These are not the Bin Laden raid conspiracies you are looking for…

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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10 thoughts on “U.S. Officials Panic About Seymour Hersh Story; Then Deny His Claims Using Jedi Mind Tricks”

  1. The whole “…too many inaccuracies and falsehoods…” statement is likely true.

    That is what they are banking on.

    I think Hersh’s story is just more bullshit…these guys NEVER tire of spinning tales, and manipulating the public. This is yet another manipulation.

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  2. paul craig roberts even said seymour hersh is mostly full of shit.

    there’s plenty of evidence that everyone is lying about everything. disinformation is not true or false, it is sometimes noise and smokescreen.

    i don’t hold everything pcr says as true, nor the symour hersh story as true, all i see is smoke and mirrors coming up on the vote to authorize mass spying and bulk data collection. fascism will march forward and no amount of smokescreens will convince me the that the ‘truth’ is as important as the fact as we know we are being constantly distracted all the time with noise, lies, and deliberate nonsense.

    the lower peasantry are self distracted with stories about tom bradies deflated balls.

    no amount of seymour hersh’s are going to make up for the lack of focus on the present challenges. the public’s focus on the past is basically irrelevent in the sense that it is not holding anyone accountable for a particular crime or affiliation.

    what does the seymore hersh story really reveal??? that obama was lying? the story corroborates the only salient detail for the american public. that obama killed osama. and the white house ‘protesting’ makes it look more genuine. so who cares obama lied about how he killed osama. the public doesn’t give a flying fat rat about this ‘innacuracy’ . and mr hersh is not revealing the underlying criminality of people in government or of anyoen out of government.

    this is all just garbage noise.

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  3. i went to pakistan a few years ago around the time of the raid for a pakastani friend’s wedding and traveled to the northern regions near gilgit and hunza valley after the wedding to see the mountains. we drove north from islamabad and passed through abottabad on our way. our tour guides pointed out the location of the compound where the raid had occurred. bin laden’s ‘compound’ was in the middle of the city, right next to a busy street which was right next to a military base. i mean, the compound was almost directly on the karakorum highway across the street from a military base…. everyone in pakistan, including the major papers, called the whole operation a joke. the opinion of most pakistanis i spoke to was that bin laden was already dead, or pakistani officials knew exactly of his whereabouts prior to the raid.

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  4. Ya gotta love it – Yep, 9 times is a charm! RIGHT GUYS?

    What Seymour Hersh fails to mention in this article, is the fact that Bin Ladin died of kidney failure in 2001. Yep, no guff.

    He also neglected to mention that nearly all of the famed Navy Seal team that allegedly executed Bin Ladin in the raid have since died themselves in very questionable manner. Twenty of the Navy team alone, were oddly loaded up on a National Guard helicopter (unheard of in a war zone) then somehow it strangely exploded after take off – killing all aboard. Dead men tell no tales. The whole thing was a made up and delivered by Obama’s amateur theatre troupe to make barry look like the hero as his approval ratings were tanking.

    No body, no witnesses, no pictures, no shit – Sure, we all still believe you Barack!

    As far as the Sotoro aka Obama admin lying,,,, couldn’t be…
    LET’S BRIEFLY RECAP, SHALL WE –

    President Obama has lied to every single man, woman and child in America with a strait face concerning;
    ObamaCare, Benghazi, Fast & Furious, the NSA-Gate, the NDAA, the IRS-Gate, Wall Street and Credit Card reforms, US Auto and Banker bailouts, Solyndra/ phony ‘Green’ Industries, Sequester, Dept Ceiling, bringing our troops home, closing Guantanamo, Libya, Syria, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, North Korea, Pakistan, the killing of Bin Laden, the BP Gulf oil disaster, Climate Change, the TTP, his origin of birth, and over a dozen other scandals, and this is just the REALLY short list…

    https://www.corbettreport.com/osama-bin-laden-pronounced-dead-for-the-ninth-time/

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  5. Hersch provides more mis-direction, further muddying the waters. Everybody ends up throwing their hands in the air in disgust and confusion, which is the desired outcome for TPTB.

    Scrambled your brain yet?

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