COMMENTARY
by Max Boot
May 11, 2015

Seymour Hersh, a once-celebrated reporter, has a new “investigative” article in the London Review of Books about the death of Osama bin Laden. He claims that it was all a put-up job between the U.S. and the Pakistani governments, that Saudi Arabia was secretly paying off Bin Laden, that Islamabad knew about the operation all along, that the Navy SEALs sliced and diced Osama and tossed his body parts out of a helicopter, etc., etc. Frankly it’s almost impossible to follow the skein of Hersh’s conspiracy theory which is based on nothing but innuendo supplied by a couple of people who might have heard something from someone at some time. Peter Bergen, a real reporter who has written a well-documented book about the search for Bin Laden, aptly summarizes Hersh’s article as  “a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts and simple common sense.” READ MORE