People troll all the time on the Internet; why would we assume they wouldn't troll everywhere else too?
The first sentence of Hersh's article reads:
"It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan."
His entire article then goes on to lay out a set of details for both the lead up and the execution of that raid, including the execution of bin Laden.
Those details conflict with the details officially given by the Obama administration-- both the details given in the days after the event (which Hersh cites) and the clarifications from the administration in the weeks after the event.
In any case, Obama's administration and Hersh both clearly agreed that there was a raid on the exact same location on the exact same evening, involving the exact same helicopters and Navy Seals, in which the exact same bin Laden was killed.
In short, what you wrote here is factually inaccurate.
> the idea that USSOCOM is secretly controlled by a sect within the Vatican
Never heard about that one. Where did he write about that idea?
Edit: decided to not use the word "tenuous" to describe the Obama admin's account in the days after the raid. What I remember Hersh discussing was the admin's initial claim that the Seals had shot him in self defense, which was later clarified/retracted by the administration.
ISI dealt with bin Laden in the 1980s, and has good intelligence in the region bin Laden had been rumored to be holed up in.
It takes more of a leap of faith to believe bin Laden was hiding from the Pakistan military/industrial apparatus 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, than that some high officials knew he was there.
I don't believe they cut some deal to stage a raid where they came off looking like total morons for purported military aid that never came.
"Since I posted my original article, I had a short email correspondence with Seymour Hersh, unfortunately he stopped replying once I asked him about several of the above mentioned inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies."