The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had been chasing since before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in hi [...]
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In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had been chasing since before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his re-election victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden. This investigation, which began as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world's media. In his introduction, Hersh asks why so much of the mainstream media leapt to defend the White House's discredited narrative. How far do the lies go? And is there a motive behind journalists' refusal to consider a counternarrative?