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Friday, May 6, 2011

Was Obama Overridden on Bin Laden Raid by Sec.Def and Sec.State?

Did Senior Military/Intelligence Officials Overrule President Obama Regarding Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden? | Newsflavor

WOW, All I can say is WOW!!  If the information in this report is true then, just... WOW, we have a dumber empty suit in the White House now than I thought was even possible.   

The picture says a lot.  And the information about this episode came from:

Note:  This communication came from our long time D.C. Insider and details previous and ongoing conflicts surrounding the decision to assassinate terrorist Osama Bin Laden.  This has been reproduced here as originally communicated to us.

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Please get this out ASAP.  Want specific people to know we know.


The report from the source goes on to state that:
RE Osama Bin Laden.  Significant push to take him out months ago.  Senior WH staff resisted.  This was cause of much strain between HC and Obama/Jarrett.  HC and LP were in constant communication over matter – both attempted to convince administration to act.  Administration feared failure and resulting negative impact on president.  Intel disgusted over politics over national security.  Staff resigned/left.  Check timeline to corroborate.
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Point of determination made FOR Obama not BY Obama.  Will clarify as details become more clear.  Very clear divide between Military and WH.  Jarrett marginalized 100% on decision to take out OBL.  She played no part.  BD worked with LP and HC to form coalition to force CoC to engage.

IMPORTANT SPECIFIC:  When 48 hour go order issued, CoC was told, not requested.  Administration scrambled to abort That order was overruled.  This order did not originate from CoC.  Repeat – this order did not originate from CoC.  He complied, but did not originate.

Independent military contacts have confirmed.  Stories corroborate one another.  This is legit.

The killing of Osama Bin Laden was in fact a Coup within Obama WH.


Use the following legend for abbreviations:
HC = Hillary Clinton
BD = Bill Daley
LP = Leon Panetta
CoC = Chain of Command/Commander in Chief


The angry, "I've been marginalized" look on President Obamas' face is priceless, not to mention he is sitting in a chair in the corner with no computer screen in front of him (when everyone else important does) which would indicate that he had just arrived from somewhere else and was not part of the planning.  You would think the Commander in Chief would have the best seat/chair in the place.  Hell, even Vice President Joe Biden has a laptop in front of him and a better/proper seat than President Obama does. 



I can only speculate so much as this information is coming from someone else, but knowing President Obama's lack of decision making over the last 2 1/2 years when it comes to military decisions, this could have been a real deal power coup inside the Obama Administration.  This will be interesting to see play out in the months ahead of the 2012 Presidential Election where I'm sure more of this will come out or at the very least be challenged by more people the more this story gets out.  Especially because of all the "Obama Killed Osama" victory tour President Obama has been on. 


Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bin Laden - DEAD - Did we just give the Chinese and Pakistanis stealth technology?

While I feel great relief from the killing of the mass murdering terrorist Osama bin Laden, I cannot help but wonder if we caused more harm than good for ourselves in our raid of the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound. 

I mean this not in the sense that we may create more terrorists or be on the receiving end of revenge attacks.  I mean this in the sense that we had to blow up one of our stealth helicopters and leave it there at the scene.  Thus leaving being a highly exploitable stealth aircraft which is now in the hands of our enemies. 

Well, now that wreckage is GONE.... no where to be found and most likely in the hands of the Chinese military now being exploited for it's stealth capabilities. 

WHAT IDIOT AUTHORIZED THE USE OF THESE STEALTH HELICOPTERS AND DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO LEAVE IT THERE AFTER IT WAS DISABLED ?!?!?!?    Take the damn thing with you...tow it out if you have to but don't leave highly sensitive military gear laying the backyard of our enemies, disabled or not, this was a STUPID, I repeat - STUPID thing to do. 

I cannot but help to think that by getting bin Laden we simultaneously gave away our most valuable military technology to our enemies.  Talk about counter-productive. 

While getting Osama bin Laden was a good thing, the reports of the details of the post raid actions clearly show the amateurish nature of the Obama Administration.  While in it's zeal to get bin Laden, The Obama Administration may have just given away the keys to the US military's stealth advantage, thus rendering our military and all future operations extremely exposed to new stealth countermeasures which will be created by studying the stealth helicopter wreckage left behind.

I can only hope to God himself that the Obama Administration is doing EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING it can to get that helicopter wreckage back, ALL OF IT.  IT CANNOT GO TO THE CHINESE!!!!!!!

So while killing bin Laden was great, I fear we just helped dig our own grave by giving away the stealth secrets we use because we left that stealth helicopter there. 


STUPID!!!!