Obama lied about bin Laden raid

An uncover distributed on Sunday claims that President Obama swindled Americans with his account of the 2011 death of Osama receptacle Laden.

Creator Seymour M. Hersh blames Obama for racing to assume acknowledgment for the al Qaeda pioneer's passing.

This choice, Hersh contends in the London Review of Books, constrained the military and knowledge groups to scramble and afterward support the president's rendition of occasions.

"Abnormal state lying regardless remains the usual way of doing things of U.S. strategy, alongside mystery penitentiaries, automaton assaults, Special Forces night strikes, bypassing the levels of leadership, and removing the individuals who may say no," Hersh composed of the Obama organization's counterterrorism arrangements.

Hersh construct his report in light of a solitary, mysterious source. This individual, he said, is a "resigned senior knowledge official who was proficient about the introductory insight about receptacle Laden's vicinity in Abottabad.

Hersh’s source alleged that the Pakistani government had an active role in approving and implementing the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

In addition, the source said that the Obama administration originally agreed to announce bin Laden had been killed in a drone strike rather than shot during an active Special Forces mission.

“Obama’s speech was put together in a rush,” Hersh wrote of Obama’s announcement of Operation Neptune Spear to Americans.

“This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following,” he added.

“This was not the fog of war,” Hersh quoted his anonymous source as saying.

“The fact that there was an agreement with the Pakistanis and no contingency analysis of what was to be disclosed if something went wrong – that wasn’t even discussed,” the source added.

“And once it went wrong, they had to make up a new cover story on the fly,” the source said of Obama’s advisers’ response to his speech on the raid, Hersh wrote.

Hersh’s report also accuses the Obama administration of embellishing the details of the raid itself and presenting al Qaeda as a bigger threat than it actually was before bin Laden’s death.