that is fundamental and starts with where seymour hersch's story was published.was overseas in the london review of books, the lrb. some theorized that their standard are not up to those in the ruse, like double-checking the facts. we put it to the fact checkers. staff members here and freelancers working from america. both have experience at many publications, including the "new york times" and the new yorker: >>> then there's the sourcing in the story said, much hinges on a source, an n named retired u.s. intelligence official. >> if you claim the president of the united states, the director of the c.i.a. and staff and aids have been lying for years, you better bring a cogent case to undercut what they have been saying, and having one anonymous intel gents official in the story does not upset the story line that the president has been given in washington. we need more to make the case. some journalism professor should take it apart. let's counselled the number. they are everywhere. single source stories. if you are talking to the spooks and the intelligence peo

seymour hersch is a long-time award winning journalist associated with the new yorker, but writes in a piece published in the london review of books, that osama bin laden was not in hidden when u.s. special forces raided his compound in pakistan, he was a secret prison are of the pakistani intelligence. senior military leaders knew of the u.s. raid in advance according to hersch and cleared the air space for u.s. navy sale helicopter to nigh in and conduct a mission unhindered. the c.i.a. found out about his whereabouts through a paid informant, not one of osama bin laden's court yours. -- couriers. those and other allegations contradict the obama administration and pakistani officials. hersch is a legendary journalist covering a massacre of vietnamese citizens by american soldiers and the abuse of prisoners at abu grid. the white house, pentagon and noted intelligence experts denounced the story calling it incredible and thinly sourced. since 9/11, the u.s. funnelled $20 billion in direct aid to pakistan to help it fight the taliban. they view india as a greater threat to national s

seymour hersch is a long-time journalist. he is associated with the new yorker and writes in a piece published in the london review of books that osama bin laden was not hiding, he was a intelligence. senior pakistani leaders knew of the u.s. raid in advance, according to hersch, and cleared pakistani air space for u.s. navy seal helicopters to fly in and conduct their mission unhindered. when the c.i.a. found out about osama bin laden's whereabouts through a paid informant, not from one of osama bin laden's court yours. these and other allegations that hersch makes contradict the line that's been put out by the obama administration, and by pakistani officials. hersch is a legendary journalist, covering the mili massacre of vietnamese citizens, and the abuse of iraqi prisoners at abu ghraib. the white house and some noticeable delegates in the world denounced hersch's story calling it incredible and thinly sourced. since 9/11, the u.s. funnelled $20 billion in direct aid to pakistan. to help it fight al qaeda and the taliban

seymour hersch said osama bin laden was cap toured and used as leverage against al qaeda. if pakistan agreed to return to the us and give him up for aid. >>> cuba announced an oil expiration deal with france during an historic trip to havana. he's the first western leader to visit the country. he and his counterpart called on the u.s. to lift the trade embargo. lucia newman reports. >> reporter: >>> untying the ideological knot. 12 years since the european union froze ties with communist cuba, in response to dissident. the french president is here to declare bygones be bygones. >> translation: this visit is taking place in a context in which, at last, it's possible for cuba to have necessary conditions to interact with the rest of the world. france has been in favour of the lifting the embargo that hinders cuba. speaking at the university, francis hollande made it clear that france wants to take a leadership role. it has made latin america a foreign policy priority. it's not just political. france and holland are key to possession themselves, lifting an embargo to cuba. am

in an article published late sound in "the london review of books" well-known journalist seymour hersch alleges the white house concocted a narrative about the 2007 navy seal raid that killed osama bin laden in pakistan. al jazeera spoke with hersch, and he laid out what he claims is the truth behind osama bin laden's death. >> president obama did authorise the raid. the seals did it. the rest is hokum. he did do that, the rest of d... ..we did work with the pakistanis, we got d.n.a. the seals went in uncontested. remember two helicopters, the second was redundancy, they needed one one do no in -- one to go in and do it, the second to watch >>> he was tracked to his complex >>> after four months of testimony in the boston marathon the first sign of remorse from dzhokhar tsarnaev emerged. a popular nun asked jurors to spare dzhokhar tsarnaev's life saying he was genuinely sorry. john terrett joins us with more. >> yes, more of the popular catholic nun in a second. first of all the court has a day's recess tomorrow wednesday, closing arguments begin in the second phase of the trial, the s

joining me now is investigative reporter, seymour hersch. mr. hersch, this piece is constructed largely around -- not exclusively, but largely around a single unnamed source. he's cited about 55 times in the piece. and the big question everyone has had after this piece landed last night is can you hang what you have hung on him on this one guy who we have no way of verifying whether he knew what he says he knew. >> well, of course, if i did, he would do what he had done, and that is prosecute him. leaving that aside, i think it's more complicated than that. in the article, i made clear that, look, in my business, somebody comes and he tells you something. you then verify with others. if somebody happens to be retired, it's much of easier to quote somebody like that than somebody who is still inside. i was able to verify the story from people who are basically inside the game, and, of course, that helped a lot. i'm not going to just go with one source. i've been around too long to do that. but, you know, i've known people over the years and some o

the man behind it seymour hersch investigative reporter says he said the raid of osama bin laden's compoundis saying isn't true and we will have the famous investigative reporter on. he will tell us what he heard and we will test it. i have to tell you, it is shaking a lot of trees this morning of people who have been reporting on this and thought they understood it before. it is one report. we'll take it on. >> with decades of experience in shaking things up. chris cuomo, thank you. >>> new developments this morning in the death of freddie gray. there are growing calls for a new prosecutor in the case. we'll tell you about it ahead. i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. or wonder whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there's harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've had no prior treatment. it's the one and only cure that's one pill once a day for 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. with harvoni, there's no interferon and the

seymour hersch about the mailai massacre. and all those factors led to the church committee being founded and going ahead and doing the most comprehensive investigation ever. and i want to join in something bob and mika said. you have to recognize that some secrets are legitimate. and the church committee succeeded in part because we recognized that some secrets are legitimate. the government could argue that it would reveal something that shouldn't be revealed. and the parallel house committee, which could have potentially done great good, because it was focusing on the quality of intelligence coming out, but it foundered and ultimately failed because it didn't accept that there are some secrets that are legitimate. >> fritz, a number of things were obviously unearthed by the church committee and the leaks. can you highlight some of them? >> i'm give three. one, martin luther king, we uncovered the document sent to him by the fbi after bugs, which, by the way, they were able to put bugs without even the approval of the attor

so everything seymour her shall said is wrong and he -- hersch said is wrong and he said he got this information from a senior intelligence official who was close to the operation. whoever that source was was not in any room i was in. >> tonight on the communicators, members of congress on n.s.a. collection of phone records, privacy and net neutrality. >> section 215 authorizes the metadata collection, you know, the bulk collection authorizes because last week we found out that the second district federal court agrees with justin amash and i that this patriot act never authorizes these programs, that these programs are illegal, but the n.s.a. will tell you these programs were authorized by section 215 and then the fisa court, you know, proceeded to write a warrant that covered every american citizen. i think our founding fathers would be appalled. >> i think our policy is far from being up to date. we have a policy that's actually, you know woefully out of date. we have copyright policy from 1976. a lot has changed since 1976. we have the electronic communications privacy act, which