Seymour Hersh on The Killing of Osama bin Laden, with Christian Lorentzen
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Seymour Hersh recorded a podcast in New York in May 2016 about his new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden, published by Verso, which features articles published originally in the London Review of Books. Talking to him is Christian Lorentzen, an editor-at-large for the London Review of Books.
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A heroic truth-teller. I’m grateful.
Seymour Hersh has indeed, as he mentions in passing, spent his lifetime fighting lies. The truth ALWAYS matters.
What are we going to do when we no longer have ppl like Hersh to think critically & use experience to find the truth?
Be like the CCP in China today, or the citizens of Germany of the National Socialist Party, better known then and today at NAZI's, where they had a policy called "Right Speech", we know it in our country as "Political Correctness". It starts with media restricting free speech because it's harmful to society. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
We as common people do posses tools to champion issues we are moved by and pursue change.
critical thinking isn’t something that dies out with individual humans. it’s a concept that dates back at least to socrates, that we know of. seymore hersh is amazing, but there are great younger investigative journalists too.
@@mj.l Critical Thinking & Bayesian Influence MUST be taught to succeeding generations , or it dies a quick death 😂 These are most certainly NOT intuitive skills . Do you even read global history ?
Hope he's telling the truth 😅
Not a word from him for several years, reports he died in 01, no pics, no vids, unarmed but killed on sight, body quickly dumped at sea... You have to have gullibility level 10 to accept Big Brother's narrative without question.
I remember the day. I instantly thought it was BS because I had heard he was dead for years. No videos of him, etc. The first thing I thought was, what are they trying to distract from? It was the week Obama had been pressured to release his birth certificate and it was all over the news. Partly, because the released one looked like a modern digital document, not like a bc from the 60s. Bin laden was 'killed at the height of birth certificate kerfuffle.
Still, there are a few brave hearts there in the US and one of them is Seymour Hersh.
...dont forget Seymore Butts!
@@HewAndAwe the American pornographic director?
Man i love listening to Seymour, when he goes off on tangents its just the most interesting stuff.
Hersh's anecdotes are always fascinating, although probably to be taken with a grain of salt and he does need an interlocutor to prevent him from going off on one of his tangents.
+TheSpiritOfTheTimes nice tangent you just went off on
ColdChicago Nah, I can dumb it down further for you: 1. Fascinating stories. 2. Probably half-bullshit. 3. Needs to be steered because these half-bullshit stories get bigger and bigger if someone's not there to keep him in check.
+TheSpiritOfTheTimes KEEP HIM IN CHECK? EVERY STORY OUT OF THE SIXTIES ET. AL. --VIET NAM, LET ME PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, WAS A LIE. AND YOU WANT SOMEONE THERE TO CHECK?
ColdChicago I don't understand what you're raving about. I'm talking about Hersh today, a muddle-headed 80 year old. He has trouble sticking to a story and goes off on tangents if someone doesn't tell him to answer the question posed to him, which has to be restated because he's forgotten it anyway.
+TheSpiritOfTheTimes just wondering how in a world composed of Wolf Blitzer, Fox News, Megan Kelly,Hannity, O'Wrongly, and the media PANTHEON of imbeciles, and corporate sycophants you can round on Seymour?> Is it the man in the burning house who doesn't like fire trucks and hoses syndrome.... good luck tho you're gonna need it .
Thank you good people, please don't stop telling the story
We’re not a bad country we just do bad things 😅.
Such a shame that what this wonderful man's discourse is mostly incomprehensible. If he could please a) take his hand off his mouth b) take time to deliver clear and unambiguous syntax...
My brain was piqued by recalling Christianna Annapour’s saying, “Bin Laden is living in a house in Pakistan!” A good interrogator a) never lies, and b) ALLOWS people to talk.
BS! Osama was never in that house in Abbottabad, he had died of kidney failure months before. The chopper that dropped off the fake Seal team, then took off, blew up after it landed again to pick them up, there are photos of parts of the destroyed chopper. A second chopper arrived that did not land but probably remotely detonated explosive that had been planted in the first chopper that was to take the non existent Osama away from the site? Osama was not buried at sea from a US aircraft carrier!!! The job on Nord Stream 2 was bungled and its string 2 is still operational so the Germans could open it to allow gas into Germany but German foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock who is head of the German Green Party said she doesn't care if her voters freeze, Ukraine is more important. Annalena is not so green if she thinks fracked gas shipped across the Atlantic from the USA is greener than non fracked gas piped from Russia?
20:05 video edited out for a reason. Hersh can't say Federal USA tortures.
listening to this man has to be acquired taste
Sy Hersh is great!
GOD IS GREAT.
Allah akbar
34:00 "They are going to walk away from the deal..." Hersh. The Federal USA or Iran. Well we are aware it was always going to be Federal USA.
His Obituary was in the Pakistan Times on December 15,2001.
I guess worlds works in a way that some children and families are more important then the others...
32:00 Parents always have a favorite
GOOD OLD UNCLE STYLIN HERSEY !
OBL had Insulin Dependent Diabetes for many years and the result was as End Stage Renal Disease and Chronic Hemodialysis. He was admitted to the hospital right before the 911 Attacks to get started on Chronic Hemodialysis Dialysis. He was discharged on the 10th of September 2001. He was in Ralwapindi Pakistan and he took two Dialysis machines with him so he couldn’t possibly have directed two plaines to knock down three buildings with a vintage 1999 laptop and a vintage 1999 cellphone and vintage 2001 Internet Architecture. The last real video of OBL was December 27, 2001 and Sanjay Gupta observed that he had had a Right Brain Stroke and Left Hemiparesis. He died on December 11th 2001and several Middle East made note of it and his Obituary was in the Pakistan Times on December 15th.
Great story. I actually believe you. It sounds plausible. Do you have any kind of sources? Cuz i would love to believe this
All of it has been deleted/cancelled.
@@asavetmd thats convenient for you!
So, his double was killed instead?
@@christopherkilian9763 who did they kill? Body was never verified. He was 'buried at sea' the next day. No independent verification.
I would like to know Seymour Herschs opinion about the assassination of Pak Special Forces Lt General Faisal Alavi in 2008? Mere months after the murder of him and his driver by gunfire ambush, the terror attack in Mumbia occurred.
6:30
as much as I admire this guy's work- it would be nice if he learned how to succinctly, tell a story (verbally )
I agree with you. But only the real revolutionists will understand the message
@@amonpanganaimhlanga3095 reminds me of Jim Rickards, but easier to understand ..lol
Bit different when you make up most stuff.
@@amonpanganaimhlanga3095 well said
@@allencollins6031 Thank your so much for the support. Seymour Hersh is an icon only those with an open mind will understand. Most don't understand how his minds operates no wonder they are naive and robots who still believe the news from the Main Stream Media
So he rambles a bit. So what. Keep up. That's the beauty of the thing. The golden bits are in the interstices of his discourse. Like watching/listening to a talented cook. The precious information are the words of wisdom between, "3 ounces of butter and 2 tablespoons of flour". You can find out the name of the cow who produced the milk that made the butter and how not to overcook the flour, if you listen carefully. Think of a fan, opening up with all those little folds. Use all your ears. He leaves us lots of paths to follow.
36:34 I like how his defintion of a good country is one that pays him well! so typical
Lorentzen’s interruption of Hersh at 13:56 is frustrating.
Yeah. I wanted that piece of insight on what Gates' view of the raid was.
@@macdonaldukah1680 I really respect Hersh. It’s sad because corporate media has all but abandoned investigative reporting. Hersh is a national treasure who’s put the spotlight on issues that Americans need to see.
Let’s go brandon 🍦🍦🍦
Where was the dialysis machine??
What's with the pillow?
I am surprised the govt. does not come after Mr. Hersh.
For what it is worth, I agree re Atta.
Sidetracks too much, just answer the question or people will switch off
who is this gates fella?
As a small citizen under the poverty level from what I observed the day the Towers went down. They immediately blamed Osama bin and they were printing his face on money. I saw A very one time short clip of him saying no I did not bomb the towers but I wish I was the one who did and the next day he had claimed responsibility. At the time he had 14 brothers of his 54 brothers and sisters living in America. Not sure but I think they own world bank and world car Kia. And history never talks about the Four gentleman who saved the capital who took the plane down before it hit the capital in Washington, for years nobody said nothing when 13 out of the 15 guys on the plane were from Saudi Arabia and when the towers went down in America the Dubai tower went up in Saudi Arabia. The next miss America was Arabic And yes I did vote for him but Barack Obama‘s middle name is Osama and he’s a Muslim. I have never heard of him before but the powers that be chose him because I would have voted for a Conda Lisa rice Colin Powell ticket way before I would’ve voted for a man I’ve never heard of because as little people we know that you guys are in charge and you are playing us because we are the cows that give you the milk.
32:00 Hersh is a Real American, Respects the POTUS in public even if he doesnt like him.
Difficult to follow this Man. He rambles and shifts narrative and makes it awfully difficult to listen.
you probably need to read a lot more history - Oliver Stone's "Untold History of the USA" for example.
Heroic truth-teller??? I did not know that Liberals were capable of speaking the Truth!
He could not be more wrong about Obama.
How comes he believes he knows so much classified information any person in this line of work would not tell him the time.
to be fair hes been proven correct numerous times in the past.
so how come he is right so often?
Look at his record ! Pretty solid
Omg, I tried I really did, but he’s yoo all over the place.
I am going to go with the Guardian piece on this: Love Mr. Hersh, respect, etc but this is a bit sketchy, all told. Not enough proof. (And I do not deity #44)
I wonder how much they get paid to not talk bout chemtrails
23:30 War crimes coming up, Hersh can't say it.
@ pentu plove I assume you’re from the grand old USSR
Great writer, poor speaker.
Birddogging, hitting on your friends girlfriend. Not a good friemd.
5;25 --}12;55--| 17;45 18;45 eyewash 20;40 ! 22;10 press v gov 23;07 29;45 bama v ptin 30;30 bamav press 32;00 respect presidency Bama 32;40 33;31 hilry,irn sanct,bush bama 34;45 kerry,polciy, 37;35 40;00 hershv MSM 40;50 war office promotion 42:15 activim, immorality,
Such a shame that what this wonderful man's discourse is mostly incomprehensible. If he could please take time to deliver clear and unambiguous syntax, then we might be more prepared to listen to what he says. His incoherence is what leads me to give up on listening to this.
He speaks like someone from Chicago for godsakes.
He is smart, he doesnt give every thing in interviews maybe so that we can just be intrigued and buy the book.
you probably love listening to smooth talking politicians and media heads who lie through their teeth
Can you imagine if he was joe Biden’s press secretary lol? Good grief he rambles about completely unconnected topics. Interviewer:”Tell is about killing bin laden. Hersh: “This one time at band camp “ lol
One of if not THE most respected investigative journalist in the world
Awful interview
I have tried watching and listening to this guy on about 10 interviews. This is textbook psychosis. Brilliant people usually go insane. He is hands down a babbling fool. This is like A.D.D. on steroids. Every time he gives an interview or a speech, it's nearly impossible for him to be coherent.
Kamala, forgive me God, is worse. And she has no clue.
So lest conclude you are not a doctor, not a world famous Pulitzer winning journalist and most important , you can’t handle the truth
Sorry, not buying. You sounds to dumb to understand what psychosis means. Word sounds smart so you will use it?
Mr Hersh, you only have half the story.
You certainly don’t have the other half
@@jacobjorgenson9285 Haha lol
The other half’s run away or trying to catch up. Actually there’s a quintet of stories flying in and out like mad art or comedy
Great country. So the problem with the US foreign policy is ocassionally bad manners. What a dissapointment