[Daily Mail] Claims that President Barack Obama lied about the role of Pakistan special forces in the raid that killed former al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden have been corroborated in an investigation carried out by American broadcaster NBC News.It's all rubbish I tell you! Listen to MEEEEE !
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh released a controversial report, accusing the Commander-in-Chief of deliberately misstating the facts of the raid in an attempt to take credit for the success hours after a Navy SEAL operation killed the 9/11 mastermind four years ago.
Hersh claimed that Obama neglected to report the role that Pakistan special forces played in the raid so he could take credit for the mission.
But NBC News has released its own investigation into the allegations, and is standing by Hersh's claims.
The broadcaster has corroborated Hersh's claim that the 'walk in' asset that revealed the vital information as to where bin Laden was hiding was in fact Pakistani.
The official US line, however, maintains that the CIA located him by tracking couriers to his walled in complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
NBC News stated that it has 'long been pursuing leads about a walk-in', and that their own findings match those reported by Hersh.
In an article for the London Review of Books published on Sunday evening Hersh claims Obama's address caused 'chaos' in the intelligence community and forced them to collaborate his story.
The former New York Times reporter quotes former American and Pakistani intelligence sources, as well as Navy SEALs, - all of whom are unnamed - as he claims the White House and CIA repeatedly lied to the public about nearly every aspect of the bin Laden raid.
The White House disputed the report this afternoon, saying the piece was 'riddled with inaccuracies' and 'baseless,' as did a former CIA official, who claimed that 'every sentence...was wrong.' A current CIA operative called it 'utter nonsense.'
Lagging grammar and run-on sentences as well. Riddled I tell you, RIDDLED !
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