Posted on 05/13/2015 8:19:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As soon as legendary journalist Sy Hersh's controversial story on the Osama bin Laden raid was published Sunday night, critics pounced and skeptics ripped his account because of its reliance on anonymous sourcing and its lack of documentary evidence.
Now a respected New York Times foreign correspondent, who was based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, writes about a key detail "in Seymour Hersh's Bin Laden story that rings true."
Carlotta Gall writes that she also learned from sources that Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, had kept bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that the CIA learned about his location from a Pakistani informer who sold the information for $25 million — not, as the White House claimed, by tracking bin Laden's couriers.
"On this count, my own reporting tracks with Hersh's," Gall writes.
Gall heard the same story about the informer "circulating in the rumor mill" in the days after the raid, but it was too difficult to corroborate without any documentary evidence.
Two years later, as Gall was researching her book, "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan," she writes that she "learned from a high-level member of the Pakistani intelligence service that the ISI had been hiding bin Laden and ran a desk specifically to handle him as an intelligence asset."
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car lotta gall ..... suuuure
Doesn’t it sound like the name of one of the girls in the Austin Power movies? :)
Everyone that doesn’t drink the ones’ koolaid knows that all this group does is lie. So it’s not a surprise that the whole OBL situation was made up.
or one of Bond’s one nighters
Carlotta Gall better be careful of carlotta gas and carnogotta brakes.
We all know that the slime-prez is a muzzie.
Oops, check that, all of us except for libs know.
OK, OK, they know too.
But, then again, they are slimy, lying manulating, low IQ scum.
Fifteen minutes of fame, then yeeears of humiliation. Duh!!!
A guy who the MSM likes mainly because of his ability to lie and get away with it gets caught telling a big lie, and the NYT thinks it’s newsworthy? I’m missing something here.
“ISI had been hiding bin Laden and ran a desk specifically to handle him as an intelligence asset.”
I have a feeling the ISI and CIA simply did a hand off here.
Didn’t Hollywood make one their BS movies a few years back claiming to depict the ‘real story’ of the raid and giving full credit for the intel on OBL to some random 30-something year old chick in the CIA? I forget what the movie was called ...haven’t set foot in a theater since 2006 and this news just reinforces my disdain.
“ISI, had kept bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that the CIA learned about his location from a Pakistani informer who sold the information for $25 million — not, as the White House claimed, by tracking bin Laden’s couriers.”
This actually sounds legit. Some ISI guy decided to cash in the information and take the $25 million. Obviously, this guy is not hanging out in Islamabad presently(or he would have assumed room temperature). He probably lives on an island somewhere with a US citizenship and passport as part of the deal. Then the CIA make up this story about the woman in the movie and the following of the courier which led to OBL.
This is what intelligence agencies do. They trade information for money and sex. They find the weakest link and exploit it.
Very true. This is almost certainly the reason we have the original cover story and this story. Standard Operating Procedure.
Then they “leak” the cover story to the press and the press ran with it. It was the downtrodden woman that did not get any respect, was the one who was responsible for OBL’s death. I am surprised she didn’t slide down the rope from the Cobra Helicopter and shoot Osama herself.
met her twin sister lotta fashina and her cousins fuk u fuk me.... lcikamadicky was out of town
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