Best $25 Million Ever Spent By The President -- May 13, 2015

Regular readers know that I am in my John le Carré stage, re-reading Tinker, Tailor and re-watching and re-watching the movie. It becomes fascinating then to read the "true" story of "taking out Osama bin Laden." It appears that OBL was employed as a spy in his later days.

Yahoo!Finance is reporting:

As soon as legendary journalist Sy Hersh's controversial story on the Osama bin Laden raid was published Sunday night, critics pounced and skeptics ripped his account because of its reliance on anonymous sourcing and its lack of documentary evidence.

Now a respected New York Times foreign correspondent, who was based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, writes about a key detail "in Seymour Hersh's Bin Laden story that rings true."

Carlotta Gall writes that she also learned from sources that Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, had kept bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that the CIA learned about his location from a Pakistani informer who sold the information for $25 million — not, as the White House claimed, by tracking bin Laden's couriers.

"On this count, my own reporting tracks with Hersh's," Gall writes.

Gall heard the same story about the informer "circulating in the rumor mill" in the days after the raid, but it was too difficult to corroborate without any documentary evidence.

Two years later, as Gall was researching her book, The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, she writes that she "learned from a high-level member of the Pakistani intelligence service that the ISI had been hiding bin Laden and ran a desk specifically to handle him as an intelligence asset."

Best $25 million ever spent by the Obama administration. Better than the $305 million spent by President Obama on Oregon's ObamaCare website. 

And all this time I thought it was President Obama flying the first helicopter in with Michelle piloting the second helicopter into the compound. 

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