Andserson Coooper showing Sy Hersh up for the Conspiracy Theorist nutball he has become

[MohRokTah]

Sad to see Hersh become this tinfoil hat nutter.

[FarPoint]

1. Yes, it saddens me to see him fall from Grace.

This episode of misinformation diminishes the good he did during the *bush years with Iraqi torture.

[former9thward]

2. The White House did not deny anything specific.

Now they are just trying to trash the messenger. As are people on this site.

[LittleBlue]

3. Bingo

White House went with the bog standard "so inaccurate we won't bother to address the specific accusation" response.

[Hobo]

5. Yes and he should be trashed for pedaling this drek...

Hobo

[Major Nikon]

6. ...

"the notion that the operation that killed Usama Bin Ladin was anything but a unilateral U.S. mission is patently false."

"As we said at the time, knowledge of this operation was confined to a very small circle of senior U.S. officials. The President decided early on not to inform any other government, including the Pakistani Government, which was not notified until after the raid had occurred," Price said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/11/politics/seymour-hersh-obama-bin-laden-raid-lied/

[Ken Burch]

4. "Andserson Coooper"?

[pinboy3niner]

9. Anderson Coooper is EXTRA goood

[bemildred]

11. And Cooper would never lie, would he?

[pinboy3niner]

13. You're talking about 2-o Cooper; we're talking about 3-o Coooper

Triple goood!

[bemildred]

15. With automatic updates, and a new, convenient user interface. nt

[jakeXT]

7. A good thing he worked for the CIA once

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There was a flyer for the CIA in my college career counseling office, and I applied for a summer job. I was a political science major and was interested in serving my country.

For a couple months over the course of two summers, I worked at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. There are reporters who've been in the military, others who've interned on Capitol Hill while they were in college.

I know the CIA may sound more exotic and mysterious, but it was actually pretty bureaucratic and mundane, at least the little bit that I saw of it. By the end of the second summer, I realized it was not a place I wanted to work after college.

I've told all my employers about it over the years, but have chosen not to talk about it publicly. When I began to travel overseas to war zones as a reporter, I realized that some Jihadist might not understand that what people do for summer jobs in college doesn't mean they make a career out of it.

http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/09/my-summer-job-nearly-20-years-ago.html

[noise]

8. Hersh should be charged with some sort of crime

Maybe sedition or treason. This sort of reporting during wartime is outrageous. Plus he is questioning the integrity of government officials. That is sickening.

[CrawlingChaos]

10. Please tell me you forgot the sarcasm tag (tn)

[bemildred]

12. Noise indeed.

The hell with free speech, is that it?

[pinboy3niner]

14. I took it as sarcasm

This comment CANNOT be serious:

Plus he is questioning the integrity of government officials. That is sickening.

[bemildred]

16. Could be, but this is the internets.

Baldfaced lying and denial are the norm. That idea of the sanctity of politicians is very popular all over the place.

[Jesus Malverde]

17. if you look deeper, understanding this

compound was 100 Yards from the Pakistani west point. It might call into question the whole narrative of the war on terror.

The house was 100 yards from the gate of the Kakul Military Academy, an army run institution where top officers train. A Pakistan intelligence official said the property where bin Laden was staying was 3,000 square feet.

An American administration official said the compound was built in 2005 at the end of a narrow dirt road with "extraordinary" security measures. He said it had 12 to 18-feet walls topped with barbed wire with two security gates and no telephone or Internet service connected to it.

Critics have long accused elements of Pakistan's security establishment of protecting bin Laden, though Islamabad has always denied this. Ties between the United States and Pakistan have hit a low point in recent months over the future of Afghanistan, and any hint of possible Pakistani collusion with bin Laden could hit them hard even amid the jubilation of getting American's No. 1 enemy.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2011/05/02/bin-ladens-hideout-located-near-pakistans-military-academy.html

[onyourleft]

18. Seriously? n/t