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> other investigators politely but publicly disagree Could you name investigators that disagree with Hersh's version of events about killing Osama Bin Laden?
by dennisgorelik 11y ago
> other investigators politely but publicly disagree
Could you name investigators that disagree with Hersh's version of events about killing Osama Bin Laden?
- tacos 11y agoDid you read the article? ‘‘It’s always possible,’’ Bowden told me. ‘‘But given the sheer number of people I talked to from different parts of government, for a lie to have been that carefully orchestrated and sustained to me gets into faked-moon-landing territory.’’ Other reporters have been less generous still. ‘‘What’s true in the story isn’t new, and what’s new in the story isn’t true,’’ said Peter Bergen of CNN, who wrote his own best-selling account of the hunting and killing of bin Laden, ‘‘Manhunt.’’ ... Filkins, who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Times before moving to The New Yorker, spent about a week running the tip by sources inside the Pakistani government and military with little success. ‘‘It wasn’t even that I was getting angry denials,’’ Filkins told me. ‘‘I was getting blank stares.’’