But surely eye witness accounts of what happened by the many people who were there as well as Pakistani security who were on the scene shortly after the U.S. left would make the earlier Pentagon story doubtful. A twelve year old daughter testified she saw her father shot by the Seals.
What would be the reaction if a foreign country carried out such an operation in the U.S. without informing or getting the permission of the government?
Cheers, ken
----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 1:17:05 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Questions about Osama Bin Laden
On May 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote:
> By allowing non-official stories, reports, critiques, links, etc. to flow with
>little interruption. What if Wikileaks and the Web had been around during
>Vietnam? Central America? You honestly believe that this wouldn't worry our
>owners and their scribes?
First, Wikileaks came years after the fact. Second, much of what was leaked were analytical comments by diplomats, not smoking gun secrets like Tonkin could have been. (And a lot of it not at all stupid analysis.) And third, the admin had no reason to release any info it didn't want to - it would be years, if ever, before their account could be contradicted. SEALs don't do tell-all's, do they?
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