May 11 – Seymour Hersh’s Bombshell Revelations on Bin Laden’s Death; Furthur Analysis of the New Information on the Killing of OBL; The White House Allows Shell Oil to Drill in Alaska’s Arctic Sea

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the explosive expose by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that challenges the official White House story of the SEAL’s raid into Pakistan that killed Osama Bin Laden. Veteran CIA operations officer Robert Baer joins us to discuss the new information that Seymour Hersh has revealed in his article at The London Review of Books “The Killing of Osama bin Laden” and we replay some of an interview I did shortly after President Obama’s announcement that Bin Laden was dead on May 2, 2011 with a very skeptical Robert Baer who outlines a scenario almost identical to the one that Seymour Hersh just published.

Part 2

Then we look further into the possibility that Pakistan’s military intelligence service the ISI was sheltering Bin Laden and that someone on the inside walked into the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad with the embarrassing truth to claim the $25 million reward. Shuja Nawaz, a Senior Scholar at the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council and author of “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within” joins us to discuss what he finds credible about the new information about the killing of Bin Laden and what he doesn’t.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the conditional approval the White House has given to Shell Oil to drill for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska this summer. Lois Epstein, the Arctic Program Director for The Wilderness Society who serves on the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement joins to discuss her concerns and her article at Alaska Dispatch News “Shell hasn’t earned enough trust to drill in Alaska’s Arctic seas”.