Fact based critiques of Obama

[mac]

From a quality journalist, Seymour Hersh:

[nw30]

Or you could just read Hersh's article in it's complete form.
I wouldn't call it a friendly analysis, but somewhat damning.
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The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Seymour M. Hersh

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.


The most blatant lie 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 of the US mission. This remains the White House position despite an array of reports that have raised questions, including one by Carlotta Gall in the New York Times Magazine of 19 March 2014. Gall, who spent 12 years as the Times correspondent in Afghanistan, wrote that she’d been told by a ‘Pakistani official’ that Pasha had known before the raid that bin Laden was in Abbottabad.

For the rest, it's fairly long~
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

[isobars]

The SEAL that shot OBL has stated and discussed on the record that Hersh's story is full of fabrications. He and Fox News have invited Hersh to defend his story, but Hersh has refused.

[beaglebuddy]

Not reading all that but common sense would assume the Paki's would want plausible deny ability, i.e. I could see them cooperating with us on this but I can also see them not wanting their people to know about it.

[swchandler]

I'm with you beaglebuddy, folks could be involved, but don't want any spotlight. I will admit though, I haven't read the article yet. I will read it later when I have more time.

[MalibuGuru]

One also has to ask why 38 Navy SEALs/soldiers, some from seal team six were killed in the 2011 Chinook crash. Why were they put into an old helicopter, not usually used for such transport.

[swchandler]

Do you think that Rep. Trey Goudy will be investigating that in his ongoing circus to find the truth? It might be outside of the trumped-up theater related to what happened in Benghazi, but maybe he can create enough mystery and innuendo to fold Hillary Clinton into the tragic event. There must have been something about it in the E-Mails that Clinton deleted, right?

[gwenrider1]

Why is people so obsessed about criticing Obama
Is he so bad?

[isobars]

He's worse than spammers like you, and that's saying a lot.