Seymour M. Hersh | The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Recorded Apr 29, 2016
Establishing a reputation as one of America’s toughest investigative reporters with his Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of the massacre in My Lai during the Vietnam War, Seymour Hersh has since uncovered a slew of scandals, secrets, and half-truths that have shaken the foundations of the D.C. power structure. For his stories about Kissinger’s role in the Nixon administration, our country’s hidden chemical and biological arsenal, the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Gulf War Syndrome, and host of other topics, he has won five George Polk prizes, two National Magazine Awards for Public Interest, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other honors. In The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Hersh investigates lies told to the public about the raid on the 9/11 mastermind’s compound and its far-reaching political legacy.
I personally love the way he digresses. Typical old school author who is bursting full of stories, info, facts etc. His books are a good read and he writes as if the story tells itself. If you listen to him speak you just need to get in the zone and try and follow him. I could listen to him forever.
You can tell there is so much knowledge in his brain that when he gives a talk it’s going a million miles an hour, very scattered but excellent in its own right. And I agree, I could listen to him for hours and hours and not get bored
@@deedeeramone34 yes. He’s got a brain full of confidential sources, secrets, leads..inside info. Kind of cool how can weave all the facts and figures together without compromising anyone..in his books at least. Reminds me of an older relative or grandpa telling us how “it once was”
Uh I thought this was about the killing of bin laden? Wtf did I just watch an listen too?? I get Seymour you know a lot about a lot. But let’s stay focused. Geesh.
you’ll have to read the article. i will, too.
Your attention span is too short. You’re the problem.
Osama talk starts around 46min.
Thank you.
Everything this man says usually turns out to be 100% true. Why should this time be any different??
Lol primary source documentation and home videos declassified years after Mr Hersch made international news and lots of money forcefully projecting his theories prove otherwise. Maybe he’s right about the pipeline, maybe it’s another propagandized theory curated to delight the target audience.
Hersh is one rare truth to power journalist. A very honest person in a world of lies.
Truth to American and Uk power, but hes an apologist for dictators like Putin and Assad.
`briefing the congress unless you’re working with an ‘ally’ is an enormous loophole.>that’s more like a well built tunnel. the kind of tunnel that you could run a lot of tanks through.
wtf, with the cuts? i want to hear the questions, and if Sy Hersh digresses, he digresses. don’t do that, please.
Please do a topics timestamp in the comment!
Great journalist.........terrible public speaker.
Yeah, but he's NOT a "public speaker" (although he's doing a pretty good job of speaking in public.) He's an investigative journalist and a CRACK one at that. I'm not beefin'. Each of his "digressions" was independently informative. Einstein: "If a 'cluttered desk' is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of?"
absolute leagend
9:00 syria + Libya & why the red line moved . _JC
I appreciate the info but cant listen to the autocrat apologetics anymore.
Cry harder that Al Nusra lost. Labayka ya Assad
About the Algeria it’s totally true
He's a much better writer than orator. He digresses, swallows lines, thoughts and threads of thoughts drift across his mind and he stutters. I'm glad he wrote down the important stuff!
Why is he bouncing from topic to different topic. while speaking on one issue, immediately jumps to another one? Lol
cuz he's full of it...
@@itloads I'll wager the farm you didn't even watch it.
@@mortalclown3812 on the topic of Bin Laden Hersh got it wrong. He's regurgitating ISI speaking points leaked to the Pakistani media fitting for their home audience.
@@mortalclown3812 btw hope you had your fingers crossed when you wrote that. ;p
ADHD
19:50 911 + ISI _JC
Bad speaker.