Senators Seemingly Fooled By Fake Bin Laden Photo

From ABC News.

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports:

For much of Wednesday, the debate raged in Washington: should the Obama administration release photos of a dead Osama bin Laden?

Ultimately President Obama said no. But that didn't keep a handful of senators from getting duped by what they thought was one of the Bin Laden photos.

It all started Wednesday morning as senators left a closed-door classified meeting with CIA boss Leon Panetta.

The top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., told reporters that he had seen photos of Bin Laden after the world's most wanted man had been shot in the head. Chambliss wasn't the only one.

Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., told Fox-25 TV that he had seen one of the photos too.

“Listen, I've seen the picture," Brown said in an interview. “He’s definitely dead."

A third senator, New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte, emerged from the Panetta briefing to tell reporters that she, too, had seen the image of a dead Bin Laden.

Asked if she had seen any of the Bin Laden photos, Ayotte replied, “I have seen one of them.”

She added that it was “clearly his features.”

At the time the claims seemed a bit odd since a number of top senators were telling reporters at the same time they had not seen any photos. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the Intelligence panel, said she had not seen the photos. Same with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, the top Republican on the Armed Services panel.

The confusion grew when Ayotte returned to the Capitol an hour later for a vote, saying that she had been shown the photo by an unnamed colleague on the Armed Services Committee.

Since numerous lawmakers said no Bin Laden photos had been shown at the Panetta briefings -- and since a slew of fake Bin Laden photos were circulating on the internet -- could the senators have been duped?

As it turned out, yes.

Come late afternoon Wednesday, it emerged that the supposed Bin Laden photo seen by Brown and others was not real.

Brown told Fox-25 that the photo he had seen was not authentic. Chambliss indicated that the photo he had seen was merely an electronic image, not from an official briefing. And Ayotte told ABC News in an interview that she was not sure if the one she saw was authentic or not.

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Media Runs Fake Photo To Illustrate Bin Laden Death Propaganda

From Prison Planet.

Everything about the Bin Laden myth is fake, so why worry about illustrating his “death” with another contrived hoax?



...But the fake photo, which is still being used by the likes of the Daily Mail and the London Telegraph even after it was proven to be a contrived hoax that has been circulating on the Internet for years, fits perfectly with everything surrounding the Bin Laden myth – the fake video tapes, the fake audio tapes, the fake claim of responsibility for 9/11.

Everything about the Bin Laden myth that has been rapaciously whipped up by the establishment over the last 10 years has been fake, so why worry about putting out a fake photo and claiming it represents the freshly dead remains of the world’s most wanted?

We don’t need MSNC to tell us, “We think that bin Laden ‘death photo’ is a fake,” because we know it’s a fake. It’s been knocking around on the web since before Obama even took office. Here it is featured in a story released over a year ago. As Stokes Young illustrates, the bloodied face of Bin Laden is an obviously contrived composite image created from an image of Osama that dates back over 10 years.

But that didn’t stop TV news stations across the Middle East, as well as major newspapers in Britain like the Daily Mail and the London Telegraph, amongst a host of others, from passing the fraud off as evidence of Bin Laden’s death.


...Despite the fact that Bin Laden’s corpse has almost undoubtedly been safely stored in a highly secure U.S. government morgue since at least 2002, the political grist to be enjoyed by an administration that has plummeted to the depths of unpopularity knows no bounds, which is why Obama victoriously proclaimed Osama’s “death ” during a speech last night almost as if the president himself had pulled the trigger.

The birther controversy and NATO’s indiscriminate murder of children in their pursuit of Colonel Gaddafi will now be swept under the rug and Obama can build his campaign for 2012 on the lie that he was the president who finally brought the evil boogeyman to justice.

Never mind the fact that numerous public officials went on the record to plainly state that Bin Laden has been dead for years and that the announcement of his demise was being kept back until the most politically expedient time.

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