{"id":59741,"date":"2015-05-11T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59741"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:45:25","slug":"seymour-hersh-is-a-crackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59741","title":{"rendered":"Seymour Hersh is a crackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone has been sending me these links<\/a> to articles about Seymour Hersh charging that Obama lied about the assassination of bin laden. Seriously, people? Seymour Hersh? Hersh is the fellow who charged that Darth Cheney had a secret assassination team<\/a> that was taking out the Bush Administration’s political enemies. His sources? Well they were anonymous – in other words he was using the voices in his head. <\/p>\n

The latest Hersh “scandal”?<\/p>\n

The principal claims that Hersh’s article makes, which largely rely on the assertions of a single, unnamed, retired senior U.S. intelligence official [voices in his head], are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 That the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid on the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was hiding in northern Pakistan was not a firefight in which SEALs went into a dangerous and unknown situation, but a setup in which Pakistan’s military had been holding bin Laden prisoner in Abbottabad for five years and simply made him available to the SEALs who flew in helicopters to the compound on the night of the raid.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An officer from Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence agency ISI accompanied the SEALs on the raid and showed them around the Abbottabad compound, and the only shots fired that night were the ones that the SEALs fired to kill bin Laden.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A “walk in” to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad tipped off the CIA that bin Laden was living in the Abbottabad compound, and it was not true — despite the statements of multiple U.S. officials after the raid — that the CIA had traced back one of bin Laden’s couriers to the Abbottabad compound and built a circumstantial case that bin Laden was living there.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Saudi Arabia was financing bin Laden’s upkeep in his Abbottabad compound.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Pakistani army doctor obtained DNA from bin Laden that proved he was in Abbottabad, proof that was provided to the States so that all the supposed uncertainty — cited by Obama administration officials after the raid — about whether bin Laden was actually living in the compound was a lie.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The “most blatant lie,” according to Hersh, was that “Pakistan’s two most senior military leaders — General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of the ISI — were never informed” in advance of the U.S. raid on the bin Laden compound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, if you thought that Hersh was the king of the black helicopter theorists during the Bush Administration, what would make you think that he has been rehabilitated? Yes, I want to believe all of the crazy shit in regards to Obama, but I’m not ready to climb aboard the Hersh Crazy-Train to Blackhelicoptertown. He wrote one decent expose` forty years ago and he thinks that it gives him the credibility to write whatever he wants these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone has been sending me these links to articles about Seymour Hersh charging that Obama lied … Seymour Hersh is a crackpot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}