The spectacular and daring raid on Sunday, which killed Osama bin Laden has the potential to spawn various conspiracies if the White House is not careful on how it gives details of that dramatic raid. Since Sunday, various senior administration officials, including Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, and Assistant to the President, John Brennan, have given detailed accounts on the raid itself, only to find out the real situation was different. To some it may be trivial on how the events unfolded, but to many, especially in the Middle East where conspiracies are a way of life, it may have a profound effect on accepting that Bin Laden was killed.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, at Tuesday's briefing, provided an updated version of the assault noting, "What is true is that we provided a great deal of information in great haste" yesterday" obviously some of the information came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated." The "fog of war" is no excuse for the administration in providing inaccurate information to the media and the nation before all the facts were in.
The administration has to be careful or it can open a Pandora's box in which it will have to answer and repudiate false narratives of the raid. The President and his administration had better make sure that the Seal teams after-action report is completed before going into detail about the raid. Once false information is released in our viral world it takes a life of its own and forever lingers among conspiracy theorists.
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