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In Stunning U-Turn, NBC Retracts Story That Obama Lied About bin Laden
It would appear someone at NBC News got a rather large tap on the shoulder. In what is a stunning reversal of their confirmation that President Obama lied and lying about the killing of bin Laden, NBC News has updated their original story - that "two intelligence sources tell NBC News that the year before the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a 'walk in' asset from Pakistani intelligence told the CIA where the most wanted man in the world was hiding" - to this - "Sources say that while the asset provided information vital to the hunt for bin Laden, he was not the source of his whereabouts." As Slate concludes, while NBC’s story doesn’t use the word correction or retraction, that’s what this appears to be.
Since we discussed the details of the original NBC News 'confirmation' story here...
...the Obama administration has spent the last 24 hours working to discredit the story. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said the report from Hersh was “largely a fabrication” with “too many inaccuracies.”
The White House says the Hersh’s investigation is riddled with inaccuracies.
And now, NBC News "retracts"... (as Slate reports)
Shortly after the Hersh story’s publication, NBC News did seem to have confirmed one of its surprising details, namely that a “walk-in asset” from Pakistani intelligence had approached the CIA in 2010 and given it Bin Laden’s location. Hersh claims that this “walk-in” was a more important source of information on Bin Laden’s whereabouts than the courier who, in most other reports on the al-Qaida’s leader's death, was identified and followed by American intelligence until he unknowingly led them to Abbottabad.
Here’s what NBC wrote earlier this week:
Two intelligence sources tell NBC News that the year before the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a “walk in” asset from Pakistani intelligence told the CIA where the most wanted man in the world was hiding.
If true, that would be major news. But NBC now says it’s not actually true. Here’s what now appears atop NBC’s story on the walk-in:
Editor's Note: This story has been updated since it was first published. The original version of this story said that a Pakistani asset told the U.S. where bin Laden was hiding. Sources say that while the asset provided information vital to the hunt for bin Laden, he was not the source of his whereabouts.
While NBC’s story doesn’t use the word correction or retraction, that’s what this appears to be. The walk-in “did not provide the location of the al Qaeda leader’s Abottabad, Pakistan compound,” the story now says.
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Did the most transparent administration in history just transparently strong-arm the press?
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Who. Run. Bartertown.
TPTB damage control...
The lie factory is laying off some folks
Whores have pimps!
Do we really need NBC or anyone else to tell us that Oblowme and the .gov complex are lying to us?
Unless of course you have an OblowmePhone and think along the lines of "What difference does it make", then you're safe.
must be a new stimulus coming out....and nbc wants IN.
It never got weird enough for me - Dr Hunter S Thompson, Journalist
Obama's goons threatened NBC, reminding them again that they are nothing more than another state department mouthpiece
Brian Williams took down Bin Laden
Bin Laden died in 2001, likely of lung failure. The Obama Administration story and Hersh's retelling are both frauds.
We were never offered any proof of death, no DNA evidence,no photos of a dead body and a supposedly traditional muslim 'burial at sea', a favorite custom practised by desert dwelling arabs, LOL>
The fact that the body could never be recovered was an unfortunate co incidence/ sarc off.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/12/26/report-bin-laden-already-dead/
So NBC is pwnd by .gov? Huh. Who knew?
lmao. Free speech and all.
I hope they can also deny or debunk this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/interview-with-osama-bin-laden-denies-his-involvement-in-9-11/24697
What HASN'T the Chosenite media lied for Obama about?
Fuck these jew motherfucking fucks...
- That run a story [a different lie sort of lie story]
- penned by a fucking jew motherfucking fuck
- who only jews give a fucking fuck about anyway because he tells ZERO truth anyway except for the jew POV of the day
- & then getting trumped by more jew motherfucking fucks higher up on the food chain...
The only possible interesting thing about this AT ALL is that it identifies 'which side' the bagel is cream cheesed...
The only surprise is that it took so long for CNN to backpedal.
It makes me wonder if incompetence at this level may be enough to jolt even a few of the braindead who still believe "the story" to open their minds. If - based on this - even one person wakes up to the Big Lie, which is everything the MSM is telling us, then actually this whole story may have been very productive! I'm working on being positive. :)
Good luck with that.
From my POV, the only thing that you might have a chance at accomplishing is to convince them that BRAWNDO is kosher...
They should have had Brian Williams do it.
Are you holding up a Faux News article as more reliable source of facts regarding the question at hand?
Lost in the Funhouse
Exactly, LatinaLover .. What's even more ridiculous is that Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with 911, so why are we talking about this at all!? What a joke. Its not exagerating to call this whole NBC story as a lie about a lie, wrapped in an even bigger bigger lie LOL
How do you know that wasn't faked and the raid where he was 'killed' wasn't actually a hostage rescue?
My reaction to this story was uncontrollable laughter- you know, the kind of laughter that crazy people do.
Agreed, Brian Williams took down Bin Laden. Watching the lying White house and the lying MSM get all twisted up in eachother's knickers is hysterically funny. In a "Holy shit, we're so fucked" kind of way.
How many fingers are they holding up????
As many as they say there is....
the boot on the neck instructs us all.
I for one am grateful NBC did the decent thing and admitted they were wrong. This restores my faith in Obama, congress, the media and bankers. They have our back, and we're lucky to have them.
Now let's finish those rightous wars in the ukraine, middle east, africa and those disputed jap/chinese islands.
Speaking of uncontrollable laughter,all of chapter 13 really is a wonderful snark filled parallel for the clumsy groping relationship between the sheeple and media in their conjugal pursuit of truth.
A seventeen-year-old boy is insatiable. His lust is a tall weed, which crushed repeatedly under the mower springs up again, green and unbowed. He is easily aroused and quickly satisfied, and easily aroused again. New to the manners of the business, I cried like a baby, bleated like a goat, roared like a lion. The time came, the lesson, when I was stallion indeed. . .
And then I looked into the mirror on my dresser, beside us -- an unusually large mirror, that gave back our images full-length and life-size -- and there we were: Betty June's face buried in the pillow, her scrawny little buttocks thrust skywards; me gangly as a whippet and braying like an ass. I exploded with laughter!
"What's the matter?" Betty June asked sharply.
I tossed and rolled and roared with laughter.
"I don't see anything funny!" I couldn't answer.
I couldn't comfort the nervous tears that ran from her, though I swear I tried. I couldn't help her at all, or myself. I bellowed and snorted with laughter, long after Betty June had fumed out of my bed, out of my room, out of my house, for the last time. I laughed through lunch, to Dad's amusement (and subsequent irritation). I laughed that night when I undressed.
I have said that my experience in the Argonne, not very long afterwards, was the second of two unforgettable demonstrations of my animality. This was the first. Nothing, to me, is so consistently, profoundly, earth-shakingly funny as we animals in the act of mating. Reader, if you are young and would live on love; if in the nights of intercourse you feel that you and your beloved are models for a Phidias -- then don't include among the trappings of your love-nest a good plate mirror. For a mirror can reflect only what it sees, and what it sees is funny.
Well. I never laughed at poor Betty June again, because a few days after my birthday I enlisted in the Army. Smitty was killed; I was not. Mona Johnston married someone else. Betty June, I learned upon my return from service, had become a prostitute during the war, first in Cambridge, and then --when after the Armistice it was no longer patriotic to sleep with soldiers -- in Baltimore. When I next saw her, it was under entirely different circumstances. I've not heard anything from her for years.
Think me heartless -- I could wish I were -- but even as I write this now, thirty-seven years later,though my heart goes out to pitiful Betty, generous Betty, nevertheless I can't expunge that mirror from my mind; I think of it and must smile. To see a pair of crabs, of dogs, of people -- even lovely, graceful Jane -- I can't finish, reader, can't hold my pen fast to the line: I am convulsed; I am weeping tears of laughter on the very page!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2OOms2Ti_4
Carlin knew
Funny how Zerhedge posted that story from NBC in the first place!!!
George is a sorely missed spokesman for us deeply insulted "tax payers, voters, etc."
Well, voters SHOULD be insulted. (as Carlin did quite well, as I never once heard him speak as a proponent of this form of self-enslavement)
I think I saw OBL's diapers on sale on Ebay back in 2004. So exactly HOW did the seller get those?
PS: It included free shipping from Kabul.
Seems like the Administration is throwing a real Curveball to NBC.
NB CIA. Remember that.
I guess someone at NBC fantasied that they were working for ZH, and forgot to whom they really report to, aka the government.
Amazing what having an AK rammed up your bung will do.
Clearly, off the reservation for a few insane moments.
Somebody apparently incorrectly valued ratings over access to power.
That someone has now been told otherwise.
The lie about the lie was a lie so now we need to retract that lie and issue another lie.
But trust us this time.
Ok I'm gonna do my part to be good patriot and just forget everything about this.
If you're not with us you're against us. 'Merika is a global force for good! These colors don't run!
It's a shame they had to kill off Emmanuel Goldstein so early in the game.
But, I guess they've found a bigger monster in ISIS to scare us into giving up our Liberties for the safety of the .gov bosom.
Anyway, if ISIS falls apart as the newest boogeyman then they can always turn their attention on the American people.
NBC got Monkeyhammered the most ... since Lehman ... because of this.
So can I feel good again while I masturbate to Zero Dark Thirty or not?
pods
Only if you scream Booya every time you ejaculate all over the TV screen.
BOOM, headshot!
They're not manufacturing LIES, they are maufacturing HALF-TRUTHS.
If the walk-in was a negotiator, of course he, "he was not the source of his whereabouts" - he probably didn't even know his whereabouts.
NO LIE, NO FOUL
And the remainder is also true,"the asset provided information vital to the hunt" ...like an IBAN number to transmit the deposit to.
They don't even need to lie (on occasions when it is actually serious), because the press is so eager to lap up dirty statist spook spooge.
There is no objective journalism anymore in the MSM. Only the internet provides information not approved of by the money power.
What's that?
NBC released bullshit and then corrected the bullshit with more bullshit?
That's a pair of National Broadcasting Bullshits, folks!
Honestly, there's never been any such thing as objective journalism, or objective anything concerning anyone's opinion.
ALL opinion contains the bias of the speaker/writer as otherwise it would not be an opinion. As for unbiased "facts," well, there's always belief systems involved which determine if they are actually true (within one's own worldview).
Its really only patriotic to disparage our government when a Republican is in charge. The press lined up on Bush daily repeating claims that he was a war criminal and worse. Don't try that on Obama.
Even Fox won't say that about Obama & Co, as they desperately want MSM credibility and ACCESS. Obama threatens them almost daily with suggestions like just a few days ago...that Fox needs to "change the way they report the news". No there is definitely a double standard, one that many here will either deny or justify. After all, when you are right, you are right and the rules of fairness need not apply.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/12/obama-rips-fox-were-g...
We don't have to suck up to either political party or ideology, but deliberate efforts to silence voices while substituting their own propaganda should not be tolerated from ANYONE.
NBCBS
i dont know about the powers that be but NBC is notoriously owned by the Reggie Love cocksucker administrration. Which is why I do not watch any NBC channels or do anything that would put any money in their coffers. Of course I have the same rule for ABC/Disney (we do japanese anime in our house not disney dreck) and CBS as well.
In other news, your daily chocolate ration has been reduced from three to two bars twenty. That is all.
I will take that Sir and I will like it!
Cause I am a Double Plus Good little serf.
Welcome to the House of Fascism. What? You look confused. Come on in. I'll get you a drink. Hey, the game's on. Who's your team? That's better... You can relax now...There you go...
Exactly, the "deep state" speaks.
IRS was scheduled to perform a proctology exam on NBC. Amazingly, it was rescheduled.
NBC has to blame someone, so --
NBC News honcho Andrew Lack: Lester, you been doing a great job filling in for Brian, but that report you made on the source of Osama information was all wrong. Terribly wrong.
Lester Holt: But I was just reading the story on the teleprompter, I. . .
Andrew Lack: I'm sorry, Lester, you are on unpaid suspension. This security guard will escort you to your office, where you can retrieve any of your personal items.
Lester Holt: You can't do this to me, you white-skinned devil! I am no chump like Williams! You will pay for this.
Andrew Lack: Guard, take Mr. Holt's credentials and corporate phone and escort hm to the nearest building exit. Inform security that Mr. Holt cannot enter again without my prior approval.
I was just thinking that this "about face" was a perfect story for Williams.
Nah, All they would need to do is simply suggest Lester voted for Bush and his brothers would take him out by noon. NBC would be faultless. You must be strategic when taking down a black man. You have to let their brothers do it for fear of being questioned as a racist. Even NBC knows that much.
Did the reporter get a sudden IRS enema?
Plus DEA, and FBI, and shit, maybe even ATF!
You should see his Baghdad Bob impressions. Its almost as funny as watching this guy and his network tell you who to vote for in the presidential elections.
Masta Blasta!!!!!!
yawn... I'm so stunned
Zacktly....
Yup Gold is not money lol
http://business.financialpost.com/investing/bitgold-begins-trading-on-ts...
backed by Soros Brothers Investments LLC lol
Follow the money
Funny it took CBS months to retract the Rathergate story.
Well there are standards...double standards.
fuck nbc
No body with eyes open and ears to hear believes the Feds anymore.
Shocking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyKnJOCIy4
It's not 'Deny-Deny-Deny'... Sheesh - are memories that short...?
It's: 'Deny, Delay & Obfuscate'...
"Sources say..."
Don't call us, we'll call you.
LOL!!! They can't keep up with their own lies. Fucking Romans never learn.
How could Dr. Goebbels mislead da Furher!
NSA called NBC, saying they got dirt on them.....tow the line or else. NBC swiftly complied like a good little bitch.
Didn't need the NSA, and you know better. A call from the WH Ministry of Propaganda was all that was needed, at most. These people think alike, they don't need to coordinate kack.
Call Brian Williams... I am sure he was there...
For what it's worth, I posted my comment above about Brian Willams taking down Bin Laden before I saw your comment.
I am sure he was there...
He was flying the helicopter and manning the cameras at the same time.
He did screw up and augar it into the ground, but we blamed it on getting shot down.
That part is probably true, but it was a "stealth" helecopter. Advanced technology. Very difficult to operate. They wanted clint eastwood to do it (firefox) but he was filming million dollar baby. Based on recent comments, Chuck Norris is aparently off the reservation. So, you know. national security. Brian Williams.
George Stephenopolis finally admits contributing 50k to the Clinton Foundation, and ABC's public statement asserts he did nothing wrong, and his journalistic integrity is beyond reproach. Just another example of how contemptuous the so called elites are of the rest of us. They'll murder us en mass before it's all said and done.
BTW, you know ZH is a part of ABC, and have you ever tracked all the tracking cookies here at ZH? Double what is being loaded at Drudge.
Only conservatives are compromised by their affiliations and associations. Progressives are only doing it for the children.
A little bit of googling will show you that ABC Media is Tyler's company. There are tons of crappy-ass social media trackers on this site, for sure.
Noscript is your friend.
"Master has rang and told me that I must do pennance for my sins..."
It's Bush's fault, OBL died in 2001.
Ok it is time to move that whole bunch of liers to Somalia and not let them back.
Why dump our trash on anyone else? Better to burn the trash in place. :)
Of course, by the time they let all of Somalia immigrate here it'll probably be a decent place to live. Ditto with Mexico.
NBC was lying then?
Love it how lying creates so many problems for everyone.
Misspoke
Its only really a lie if you said it in malice or for personal reward (conservatism). If its a deliberate mistruth told to advance a progressive agenda, I mean something that ultimately benefits ALL of mankind (or at least the select survivors), can you really tag with with a term so ugly, so negative, as a lie?
They are trying to do God's work here while so many are trying to impede them with truthful but damaging allegations of lying. Why can't they see the bigger picture here. Utopia...with lots of Koolaid stands
We're supposed to be shocked about 1984 news speak? I was shocked when NBC confirmed the story in the first place.
that way you cover both sides
Dear Leaders media just got bitch slapped.
Don't act surprised by anything this Marxist con man does from this point forward.
actually, ALL the words spoken by both sides are lies...
it's an 'update' not a retraction. sheesh - don't you guys know anything??? /sarc
The federal government, and specifically the executive branch will use all the power it has coopted to control the narrative of any situation it has a vested interest in. Just look at what they did to Edward Snowden (whose spilling of the truth has been confirmed over and over again, whereas the executive branch has had a full-time job lying and word-managing everything it says).
It wasn't good enough to kill Bin Laden -- they had to fabricate a story around it. It just goes to show how insecure these people are. We don't have leaders -- we have neurotic liars. And apparently a majority of the country is just fine with that. Not me.
Now, here is someone who can clear this all up for us!
Back to you Brian.
Memory, meet hole.
The lemmings who still believe the corporate media deserve what they get.
so "psyop" gets thrown around a lot.
This is one.
The important thing here
is to reinforce the false notion
that bin laden did 9/11
and not elements of the US and Israeli and probably Saudi
governments and intelligence agencies.
Maybe OBL died years ago of kidney disease.
maybe not.
maybe he died in 2006.
maybe not.
doesn't matter.
OBL was a patsy.
Probably threatened to never give them a CIA "scoop" ever again.
Breaking News: NBC just got a tingle running up it's leg.
And Chris Matthews got a tingle in his mouth and jiz running down his chin.
Lie. Rinse. Repeat.
The Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation must be working overtime this week
Adult child: Mommy and Daddy. How did our family become part of the 1%? Is it because you were brilliant scientists? Inventing great technology? the cure for cancer? Were you doctors and surgeons? saving many peoples lives? Or did you just work 60 hours a week at a dignified profession and live below your means your entire life?
Parents: your mother and I were born in the age of the war on terra. brown people on the other side of the world posed a constant existential threat to people who love freedom. While we did not personally fight, heal, or provide technology for soldiers, we were architects of system that protected the world from bin laden, ISIS and Al Queda. We were rewarded handsomely for that.
Adult Child: Mommy and Daddy, tell me more about this system!
Parents: It is complicated, so lets put in terms you can understand. Do you like your job at the clinton foundation preparing gourmet meals for GLBT stray rescue animals and presenting them to rich old people in corporate boxes who just need some company at the colloseum? Or when they are watching golf on NBC?
Adult Child: Yes I do.
Parents: That is the system we worked on to become part of the 1%. And that is the system that allowed for you to follow your passion in life.
Adult Child: That is so wonderful. My parents created a system of love, free will, truth and the american way!
Parents: (eyes darting to the left) ... Umm ... yes ... thats what we did. Always remember bin laden!
Next, NBC rehires Brian Williams as anchor and his daughter as co-anchor ... lol
Where is Bernie Maddoff ??? Corzine?
With all the distortions, omissions and bald faced lies fed to us as the "offical narrative" we are told by the chief liar himself, John Kerry that RT News is Russian propaganda.
My primary source for news at home is now RT. I can no longer stomach our main stream media.
The Negro Broadcasting Communications retracts? LMFAO.
Breaking News @ NBC:
Putin, Hitler's Ghost and Darth Vader have teamed up and are planning to kill Jesus, they're using Iran as a base, and the Chinese are funding them.
.
Helmet is also part of the team
The blue helmet.
hahahaha
Let's get this straight.
wtc 7 fell out of sympathy with the other towers. Trillions of dollars were doled out to save Aig, Citigroup, JPM, Wells Fargo, Goldman, etc whose ceos, coos, cfos and numerous others were guilty of SECURITIES FRAUD, MARKET AND CURRENCY MANIPULATION, however NO ONE HAS GONE TO JAIL. WMD's were never found in Iraq and yet no one has gone to jail for treason.
But SOMEHOW, this news is now news...
Yes,Bin Laden and Co are like ISIS originally a Saudi/US creation..BUT they are running wild and aren't manageable anymore.
Another ''small''fact is that Bin died in 2001 on kidney failure..All other stories are made up.
NBC - Proud to be part of the North Korean News Network
How many sleeping sheep will this wake up?
1/2 of 1%.
Brian Williams was with the Seal Team and he says they were taking fire from Bin Ladens room
Wonder if the retraction has anything to do with the payouts folks receive for valuable information. Given the general level of... err... "inefficiency" in government, I suspect that more than a few of those payments went to folks who probably shouldn't have received them. If multiple folks received money for approximately the same information, then someone has some explaining to do. Further, in the event there is a discrepancy between claims as to who was the source of the information, then someone has some explaining to do. Just one possible explanation for the need for refinement of the official story.
Not sure why anyone cares. At some point the mainstream news agencies lose so much credibility that, even if they printed a perfectly true story, no one will believe them. I suspect we crossed that rubicon long ago, but there are always holdouts, regardless of the level of evidence.
PS, if you couldn't release the video of the operation because it showed that OBL was not actually armed (which disagreed with the official narrative), then why can't you release it now that the narrative has been debunked? Even if redacted, it could probably answer an incredible amount of questions. Let's see it.
We 'U-turn' some news.
the Bush WH use to redact the statements made on the air by the press secretary when they published them on the official government website (NBC) makes me wonder if Obama does the same thing?
Comcast needs license renewals.
Comcast needs more spectra.
Comcast needs merger approvals.
Simple as pie.
nice inference. that could well be whats going on. Someone found a lever to hammer on to get them to cry 'uncle'..
Truth is what the Mass Media says. Period.
Truthiness is what the media, All media, says it is, because human beans can't stand the truth.
Marsh Mcluhan settled this once and for all time: The Medium is the Message.
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marshall_mcluhan.html#kJQ5Kv...
Is this what they mean by Liberal Media?
What a pack of liars, all of them. The government released photos of Saddam's sons to show that they were dead, but now they refuse to show images proving that they captured and killed Osama, the most wanted man in the world. But they do exist because several members of CONgress saw them. Right.
Wuddn't the $25MM bounty be traceable?
There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! [/Arthur Jensen, Network]
Once upon a time, in a far, far away country.... A new fairytale book in the workings. I suspect NBC wants the #1 double speak position.
http://www.tvb.org/planning_buying/5658
CIA contacted NBC and said, 'Retract or else'
Just another day in the life of the Chosenite media liars who carry the water for our benevolent Chosenite bankster cartel leaders.....what can't 7 trillion dollars printed under Obama alone buy for the greedy bastards?
We telephoned some folks...
So we have an argument over the "source" that led to the death of OBL. I put that in my pile of things I don't give a fuck about.
PS: Osama won.
This is a surprize how? Exactly?
The bigger surprize is how they managed to publish something critical about this in the first place.
Isn't that what we've been hearing? How it is all propaganda? Seems they must have had a wild-card editor. Check the river for the editor.
Is this the same Pentagon that put an unknown Air Force captain on TV within minutes of the JFK Jr. crash to start promoting the "pilot error" theme?
Winston Smith must have had a hard week at work. Time for a drink of Victory Gin and then off to watch the telescreen....
We've choomed some folks.
So, some news was leaked before it could be spun into propagnda. That's typical when there's a shitload of spinning that must be done.
The Obama administration was hoping to use the line, “What difference does it make?”, in it’s press release until Hillary Clinton advised them she would sue for plagiarism.
They hate us for our freedom, LOL.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/13/greatest-threat-free-speec...
Simply being a Presstitute.
I deny the allegations and I deny the alligator.
I thought this story would just be swept under the rug like so many other filthy, stinking, rotten, government lies before it. A long time ago, the giant stinking lump in the rug had gotten so big I thought that people would at least start to talk about bumping their head on the ceiling as they climbed over it, or at least mention the stench in the room emanating from the big lump under the rug... but...
I had Greatly Overestimated the Vast Majority of the population. They will eventually find enough space under the rug to bury this one also. The charade will continue.