Journalist and author Seymour Hersh accused the White House of lying about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. Since then, the White House has denied these claims as being “baseless.”
In his article in the London Review of Books, Hersh asserted that the generals in the Pakistan army were informed of the raid despite the White House claiming the raid occurred without their knowledge.
Some of the other claims Hersh made included that the original idea was to kill bin Laden via a drone before it was decided to send in Special Forces and that bin Laden was not buried at sea.
According to CNN, Ned Price, spokesman for the White House National Security, said that the report was full off “too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions.”
Price also told reporters that Pakistani officials were not informed of the raid until afterwards and that while they are still working with Pakistan to put an end to al-Qa’ida, the raid “was a U.S. operation through and through.”
Hersh’s report only cites an anonymous United States source, but an official for the United States reportedly told CNN that the reaction from Pakistanis after the raid made it clear that they were not informed of the raid in advance.
A National Security Analyst for CNN, Peter, Bergen also said that Hersh’s report is “nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts and simple common sense.”
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