7 Wildest Details Of The New Bin Laden Bombshell

by Austin Petersen

6. Hersh’s credibility has collapsed in the last 10 years

Though his career included exposing such U.S. military secrets as the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre and the mistreatment of detainees in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, Hersh’s last ten years have been marked by an increasing willingness to make farfetched claims about the U.S. security apparatus. In 2006, he claimed that George W. Bush had an imminent plan to bomb Iranian military targets and trigger regime change there. And in 2011, he made a speech claiming that there were indissoluble ties between top U.S. special forces leaders and Opus Dei, the Roman Catholic lay organization that author Dan Brown puts at the center of his sensationalistic novel The Da Vinci Code.

Max Fisher of Vox.com has called this slow movement into absurdity a “slide off the rails.” He also noted that The New Yorker, which has published Hersh’s exposés for years, “repeatedly” refused to print the bin Laden article over the course of several years.

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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