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Seymour Myron «Sy» Hersh (nacido el 8 de abril de 1937) es un periodista de investigación y escritor político estadounidense. Ha colaborado durante mucho tiempo con la revista The New Yorker en temas de seguridad nacional y también escribe para la London Review of Books desde 2013[6][7].

Hersh obtuvo el reconocimiento por primera vez en 1969 por exponer la masacre de My Lai y su encubrimiento durante la guerra de Vietnam, por lo que recibió el Premio Pulitzer de Reportaje Internacional de 1970. Durante la década de 1970, Hersh cubrió el escándalo Watergate para The New York Times y reveló el bombardeo clandestino de Camboya. En 2004, informó sobre el maltrato de los militares estadounidenses a los detenidos en la prisión de Abu Ghraib. También ha ganado dos National Magazine Awards y cinco George Polk Awards. En 2004, recibió el premio George Orwell[8].

Hersh ha acusado a la administración Obama de mentir sobre los acontecimientos que rodearon la muerte de Osama bin Laden y ha cuestionado la afirmación de que el régimen de Assad utilizó armas químicas contra civiles en la guerra civil siria. Ambas afirmaciones han suscitado polémica.

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The greatest investigative reporter in the United States, Seymour Hersh, a living legend of the most unyielding journalism, is at ease about the presidency of his country and the state of the news media in his country. In an interview with Lisa O’Carroll

It doesn’t take much for Hersh to flare up, as befits an investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of American presidents since the 1960s and was once described by the Republican Party as «the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.»

Hersh is writing a book on national security and has devoted a chapter to Bin Laden’s death. He claims that a recent report by an «independent» Pakistani commission on life in the Abottabad compound where Bin Laden sought refuge would not stand up to detailed analysis. «The Pakistanis put out a report, and I’d better stay out of it. Let’s put it this way, it was done with considerable American input. The report is nothing but bullshit,» he says, hinting that there will be revelations in his book.

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Around March 2003, through the New Yorker magazine, he denounced that Richard Perle (director of the Pentagon’s Defense Programming Board) had taken advantage of the war in the Middle East for his own benefit.

In 2015 he claimed that «Bin Laden’s death was not as we were told,» he said in revealing new data on ‘Operation Geronimo’ which he denied: «he had been a prisoner of the Pakistani intelligence services since 2006. A former Pakistani intelligence officer indicated to the United States the whereabouts in exchange for 25 million dollars.»[1] He said.

«From the open field we came to the village and someone found a guy. He was lying in a shed, scared and curled up. The soldier said, ‘there’s a dirtbag in there’ and asked what to do with him. Mitchell said ‘kill him,’ and he did. The man was standing and moving his arms when he was killed. We went into that shed and couldn’t open a door.» Meadlo tells of breaking it down and «I found an old man shaking. I found one, I told them, and Mitchell ordered me to kill him. He was the first one I killed. He was hiding in a canoe, he was shaking his head and shaking his arms, he was trying to tell me not to kill him.»[4] He was trying to tell me not to kill him.»[4] Meadlo says.

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The other day in 5W Magazine Agus Morales, who was there, made a summary. Yesterday, Sunday, at last, Hersh’s story saw the light of day. A very long essay, more than 10,000 words, published by the prestigious and British London Review of Books with the title: «The Killing of Osama bin Laden».

It is a fascinating story, really well written, dynamic, fast paced and with a shattering theory: everything we have been told about bin Laden’s death is a lie. Or almost everything. It wasn’t a secret US operation, executed without Pakistan’s knowledge. He was not discovered through his emails (not electronic, but people who acted as couriers), but through the treachery of a Pakistani intelligence officer who now lives in Washington with a reward of 25 million dollars.

I am far from a specialist in these matters. I have read quite a bit about it, but at a very amateur level. But I’m in journalism, so the main problem jumps out at even a layman. Hersh’s argument, the story, is based on very few testimonies and from people vaguely connected to the information. By loosely we don’t mean that they are not informed people (at least one of them appears by name), but people who were apparently far removed from the chain of command and higher level information at the time. And that is something they are going to use against you immediately.