President Obama Knew OBL’s Location Since August… Voted Present Until May
Posted by Lady Liberty on Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:08 PM
Osama bin Laden dead: Yes, SEALs were in on the raid, but aides hail Obama’s office bravery
President Obama was notified of Osama bin Laden’s location in August 2010. He hemmed and he hawed and he voted present. It took him until April 29 to gather himself enough to authorize a raid.
The Washington Examiner reported -
After exploring every angle for months, they concluded that all signs pointed to this being bin Laden’s residence.
President Obama was made aware of the compound when it was discovered last year. By mid-February, the intelligence was solid and since mid-March, Obama led five meetings with the National Security Council regarding the issue.
Intelligence officials worked with the U.S. military to plan the operation and a small team accepted the risk and began to train for it.
On April 29, this past Friday, Obama gave the final go ahead.
As Andrew Malcolm of The LA Times pointed out:
According to early reports of the incident, detailed here in The Ticket, 24 SEALs rappelled down ropes from hovering Chinooks in post-midnight darkness Monday Pakistan time with Osama security forces shooting at them. Brennan didn’t have much time to go into all that today, the goal is to elevate the ex-state senator to at least a one-star commander-in-chief.
Here’s something else that didn’t get much recognition in all the street celebrations or all-hail-Obama briefings:
The trail to Monday morning’s assault on Osama’s Pakistan compound began during someone else’s presidency. That previous president authorized enhanced interrogation techniques which convinced folks like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to give up, among many other things, the name of their top-secret courier, now deceased. His travels ultimately led the CIA back to Osama’s six-year-old suburban home.
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DMartyr commented:
Looks like the birth certificate issue got a little too hot for the Obamessiah. He decided to play a hidden Ace.
LibertyAtStake commented:
“It took him until April 29 …”
Someone should give close study to the opinion polls that came out on April 28 to find the explanation.
d(^_^)b
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
Ginger commented:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/04/born-brit-billboard-campaign.html
You are going to love this billboard. Needs to be on bill boards in every state.
Harrison commented:
We owe Bush a vote of thanks.
uggy parfait commented:
TRILLIONS of dollars for 10 years on War On Terror, and NO BODY, NO EVIDENCE.
F*(**(*(*(*(*(*(*(* Obama bin Lyin, he lied a week ago about his birth, then Donald Trump says we need to get out of Afghanistan, we are not looking for Osama, then POW an alledged kill-shot to the head, and DNA at Afghanistan to confirm body, then wash and anoint ( Muslim code) and burial at sea — all in 1 1/2/ hours after White House announcement ;–
TOTOALLY BOGUS.
US IS BE$NG TRICKED BY SOMEONE.
Sasja commented:
Zero may have given the order but I’ll make book he’s not the one who made the ultimate decision. He’s the marianette whose strings are being pulled by someone else.
Ginger commented:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2011/may/judicial-watch-president-tom-fitton-testify-house-energy-and-commerce-oversight-and-in
Barry sure likes to keep hidden all of his terrorist buddies that visit the white house.
uggy parfait commented:
http://www.thecurrentaffairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Body-Pictures.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1304322534565
PHOTO NO BIN LADEN : OBAMA BIN LYIN AGAIN.
JimR commented:
BHO waited until campaign season launched. Now his minions can replay it over and over again until Nov 2012.
tommy mc donnell commented:
if you think obama wanted to see osama dead i think you are crazy. someone in his administration probably convinced him that they could use osama’s death for political purposes. since he is in full campaign mode now he finally pulled the trigger.
akjhefggw0v6857uyt commented:
From the linked article
“President Obama was made aware of the compound when it was discovered last year. By mid-February, the intelligence was solid and since mid-March, Obama led five meetings with the National Security Council regarding the issue.”
I used to think conservatives were generally honest and liberals were always spinning the facts to score political points. Thanks for clearing up my misconceptions. I’ll be careful not to trust conservative sources anymore.
Moderate Patriot commented:
I will show the actual excerpt from which some trolls are taking their more condensed, more syntactically jumbled quote about Bush not caring about UBL, which they post thusly:
G.W. Bush, 9/13/01. “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
In actuality, with important nuance, the quote is this:
“So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I’m more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did…
Q : But don’t you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won’t truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven’t heard much from him . . . I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.”
Ginger commented:
#11
Run along little troll/liberal you are not wanted here!
Hakon commented:
Mark Levin made an astute observation: in order to puff their leader up, Obama’s henchmen will now leak classified info about value of intelligence gathered during this raid. They already reported about found Osama’s HD, his computers, wealth of data etc.
Chisum commented:
#11
They knew he was OBL’s courier. They knew he would lead them to OBL.
I clicked on the link and this is what I found:
Last August, intelligence officials tracked the men to their residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a relatively wealthy town 35 miles north of Islamabad where many retired military officers live.
“When we saw the compound where the brothers lived, we were shocked by what we saw,” a senior administration official said.
[...]
While the two brothers, the couriers, had no known source of income, the compound was built in 2005 and valued at $1 million. That led intelligence officials to conclude that it must have been built to hold a high-value member of Al Qaeda.
Further intelligence gathering found that there was another family who lived on the compound which had a size and makeup that matched the bin Laden members who would have most likely been with Osama.
After exploring every angle for months, they concluded that all signs pointed to this being bin Laden’s residence.
Chisum commented:
Moderate Patriot,
You need to go here and tell this idiot. He’s humping the fake quote:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/05/donald-trump-responds-to-obamas-attacks-the-jokes-were-inappropriate-video/#comment-323318
retire05 commented:
WoW! Malcolm lobs a pretty scathing critique of Brennan and the former community organizer. And coming from the LA Slimes. What a surprise.
But the real heroes of this mission are those who were flying in the dead of night in a Chinook. And if Al Jihadi Jazeera (the White House’s favorite news source) is right, capture, not kill, was the mission. So here is how I figured it went down:
Team Leader: Y’all understand the mission is to capture bin Laden, right?
SEAL team: Yes, sir.
Team Leader: OK, men, let’s roll.
On the Chinook:
Team Leader: I want to let you men know that the first priority is for you to come out of this alive. Got it?
Team: Yes, Sir.
Team Leader: Let me say this, if one of you finds the target, and you decide to just pop him, I’ve got your back. A dead terrorist in custody is better than a dead SEAL, got it?
Team: YES, SIR!
Hellloooo?! commented:
They discovered the existence of the compound in August! CIA was still debating the likelihood of UBL’s presence there in December. Panetta decided on a raid in February. Debate continued on the proper course to take until the President was finally briefed on March 14 and he gave his okay. Two weeks later rehearsals began. Panetta began holding daily meetings in April and he reported that the CIA had concluded UBL was really there on April 19. The operation was ready and authorized on April 29. After a 24-hour delay due to bad weather, they pulled the mission off.
Give credit where ’tis due.
Chisum commented:
Brennan didn’t have much time to go into all that today, the goal is to elevate the ex-state senator to at least a one-star commander-in-chief.
OUCH!
Moderate Patriot commented:
I think we should concentrate our negative energy on Obama only when it is applicable. It IS possible that he does some things right. I was always annoyed when my liberal friends refused to give Bush credit for anything, just because there was so much past evidence of blunder and imperial bluster. We should all chill…
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