NBC News Walks Back Report That Pakistani Officer Gave Bin Laden's Location To CIA

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NEW YORK -- NBC News has walked back its Monday report that a Pakistani intelligence officer provided the CIA with Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts a year before the U.S. raid in May 2011, a claim that ran counter to the Obama administration’s narrative of events but supported a key detail in an explosive new story by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

On Monday afternoon, NBC News cited “two intelligence sources” claiming the Pakistani officer, a walk-in informant, “told the CIA where the most wanted man in the world was hiding.” NBC also reported that those two sources, along with a third, said “the Pakistani government knew where bin Laden was hiding all along.” The Obama administration has maintained that bin Laden was found through tracking his couriers to the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Monday evening, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell -- who shared a byline on the story with investigative unit head Richard Esposito and reporters Matthew Cole and Robert Windrem –- reported the information on the "NBC Nightly News" and MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes." The network heavily promoted the scoop, with an on-screen chyron during nearly all of Hayes’ 16-minute segment, featuring appearances by Hersh and Mitchell, that read: “NBC News: Pakistani Asset Told CIA Where Bin Laden Was Hiding.”

But NBC News has now added an editor’s note to the story that diminishes the Pakistani officer's involvement and lacks the earlier specificity. Instead of pointing the CIA to bin Laden whereabouts, NBC News now reports that the officer “provided information vital to the hunt for bin Laden."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/nbc-bin-laden-walks-back_n_7275810.html



WOW!

The media is really batting 100%. First they told us 48 hours ago that the senate democrats handed the President a stunning defeat on fast track authority. However, within 24 hours after that it became apparent that a compromise agreement had been done, and now it looks like the fast track authority will now pass.

Now, some media outlets were very quick to back Mr. Hersh and his bin Laden story. Now they are saying the "informer" provided vague references about "vital information" in the hunt for bin Laden.

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1. Hersh's story has fallen apart

[still_one]

2. Yup, pretty sad

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3. Hersh has been slipping for some time

The man used to do great reporting but lately he has been really weak

[Cha]

4. Not sure why this doesn't have lots of Recs.. oh wait..

it's not saying the President is "a liar".

In fact it's the opposite.. oh and the US corp media was all over saying the Dems were "snubbing Pres Obama" yesterday when they were really "snubbing" McConnell.. but they wanted Hair on Fire and so many were willing and ready to play. They got played.

Thanks still one