Seymour M. Hersh published a giant story about how the Osama bin Laden raid actually went down in Pakistan. The United States government is super angry about this report and have begun fighting back full force in the media. Cenk Uygur (Host of The Young Turks) breaks down Hersh’s report on the bin Laden raid, and goes on to discuss the issues with the reporting, and the reaction by the establishment. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

Read “The Killing of Osama bin Laden” by Seymour M. Hersh here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

“It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and 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. The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? He was hiding in the open. So America said.”*

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