Here’s a tip I wanted to pass along for using a self-checkout lane at the supermarket. When using a public touchscreen don’t press the center of the button. Press closer to the edge. The center is more likely to be worn and won’t register the touch as well.
Off-topic, Seymour Hersh has a piece in the LRB on what he alleges is the real account of bin Laden’s death. I recall he’d stated back a few years ago the official story was “bullshit.”
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
Ben, the Administration is pushing back through one of its unpaid mouthpieces:
Was there a cover-up in bin Laden killing?
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
I’m still reading Bergen’s piece, but he makes a few assertions of questionable merit himself. Here’s one that stuck out to me:
What he saw was evidence that the place had been shot up. By whom, when, and under what circumstances are things that he asserts without anything other than sources, he doesn’t know.
Which version is true? Probably neither. I still think there’s a couple of things hinky about that raid though, namely the idea that the Pakistani government wasn’t in on it (and they were certainly in on keeping bin Laden there), and why the Hell the body was disposed of by dumping it in the sea.
I honestly don’t know how much credence to place in Mr. Hersh’s reports. I find his use of unnamed sources makes me uncomfortable. There are a lot of dissatisfied people in DC. Like the rest of the country but dissatisfied for somewhat different reasons. Any guy with a grievance can make a handy unnamed source that nobody can check.
There is that, yes. When I read:
I immediately thought of Patreus!
To my eye while he doesn’t need to name his sources for the whole story he should at least have named sources who confirm parts of the story. In the absence of that the whole thing could be made up as far as we know.
While I’m sure we don’t know the full story on the UBL raid, Hersh’s allegations read more as conspiracy than a cogent alternative supported by facts and evidence. He really doesn’t have any facts or evidence at all – it provides no principle sources with direct access to the events that occurred.
Anyway, this is a good explanation of the article’s problems:
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bin-laden
Andy, I agree. Hersh has given us a good story but without something more solid than unnamed former officials that’s all it is.