Was
there a cover-up in bin Laden killing?/Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad.
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| 11/05/215
Seymour
Hersh is one of the giants of investigative journalism. Early in his career he
broke the story of the My Lai massacre during which hundreds of unarmed
civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam in 1968.
Hersh
was still going strong after 9/11, breaking (along with “60 Minutes”) the story
of the prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq for
The New Yorker in 2004.
Now
comes another blockbuster from Hersh in which he asserts, “The White House’s
story (about the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin
Laden) might have been written by Lewis Carroll.”
Hersh’s
article appeared in the London Review of Books, not in The New Yorker where he
has been a contributor since 1993.
Because
of Hersh’s stature his article about the bin Laden raid attracted so much
attention Sunday when it first appeared that the London Review of Books’
website crashed.
Allegations
of massive cover-up
