Seymour Hersh's Osama bin Laden endgame blockbuster story is getting a bit more coverage in the wider mainstream media than some of his other recent post-Abu-Ghraib stories (such as, for instance, his announcement that various top brass and Special Forces people were all Opus Dei members - a statement hotly disputed by the named brass as well as by Opus Dei). I think this is because it tells a story that appeals to many groups who don't like some or all of the official narrative as told by the United States government: that Obama succeeded where Bush failed, that the Pakistani government had no idea Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan, that the Pakistani government was shocked, appalled, and outraged at the US raid's violation of their sovereignty over their own land, that bin Laden was killed and his corpse buried at sea because any on-land burial site would be an instant shrine for jihadists.
There are problems, to put it mildly, with the official USG narrative. But those problems don't make Hersh's any more accurate. Like the official narrative, Hersh's looks like it was crafted not to tell the truth, but to cover a few butts.
Follow me past the cartouche and I'll explain.