Re: What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thanks, Dave. A balanced article which -- surprisingly, as it is the NYT 
-- does not feed into the new and rather transparent "Seymour Hersh has 
lost it" narrative (roughly: past achievements are acknowledged, but now 
he is old and has forgotten to take his meds). Hersh's pieces for the 
London Review of Books are very important. Which is not to say that his 
version of the events in question is accurate (how would I know?), just 
that they should be taken into account.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/seymour-m-hersh


Am 17.10.2015 um 06:05 schrieb Dave Monroe:
> "It’s not that the truth about bin Laden’s death is unknowable; it’s
> that we don’t know it. And we can’t necessarily console ourselves with
> the hope that we will have more answers any time soon; to this day,
> the final volume of the C.I.A.’s official history of the Bay of Pigs
> remains classified. We don’t know what happened more than a
> half-century ago, much less in 2011.
>
> "There are different ways to control a narrative. There’s the
> old-fashioned way: Classify documents that you don’t want seen and, as
> Gates said, 'keep mum on the details.’' But there’s also the more
> modern, social-media-savvy approach: Tell the story you want them to
> believe. Silence is one way to keep a secret. Talking is another. And
> they are not mutually exclusive."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-really-know-about-osama-bin-ladens-death.html
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