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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has ruffled some feathers online by "live-tweeting" the killing of Osama bin Laden [bbc.com] for its fifth anniversary:

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been criticised online for live-tweeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden as it happened five years ago. It has shared details of the mission and intelligence that led to America's most wanted man being found. But reaction has been largely negative, with one Twitter user calling the move "grotesque and embarrassing". Others posted memes and gifs of people rolling their eyes and putting their heads in their hands. The CIA's other tweets mostly concern historical trivia and artefacts.

The CIA's twitter feed [twitter.com] currently contains the pat-me-on-the-back statement "Daring #UBLRaid was an IC team effort & in close collaboration with our military partners" followed by a twelve tweet timeline of the Osama bin Laden raid, from 1:25 PM to 7:01 PM EDT on May 1st.

Meanwhile, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is still [democracynow.org] poking holes [democracynow.org] in the official story, nearly a year after he wrote "The Killing of Osama bin Laden" [soylentnews.org] in the London Review of Books.

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