Obama Canceled Mission to Go After Osama bin Laden - Three Times

'Gutsy Call' Not so Gutsy After All, New Book Reveals
Israel National News -- At the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three seperate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to a new book scheduled for release August 21, The Daily Caller (DC) reported.

In “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him,” Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, reportedly persuaded Obama to hold off each time, the book reveals, according to The DC.

Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.

Obama administration officials said after the raid that the president had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his fourth moment of indecision.

At the time, the White House blamed the delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. However, when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.

“President Obama’s greatest success was actually his greatest failure,” Miniter told The DC. “Leading From Behind,” he said, traces six key decisions of the Obama administration, and shows how the president made them, or, in many cases, failed to make them.

The president has made the assassination of Osama bin Laden a focal point in his re-election campaign, calling it one of the "gutsiest calls of any president in recent history."

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Blog author's comments - So much for the 'gutsy' call. Obama is not the hero the media wants him to be. This isn’t any real shock – everything about Barack Obama screams fraud. He is always campaigning; if possible he would have waited until the election was closer.

Obama, the man is a myth created by the main stream media. If anything had gone wrong with the operation he no doubt had his story ready that would have placed the blame on his generals and those in charge of the mission. He would have taken no responsibility for failure.

Obama could not discuss this with Leon Panetta the US Secretary of Defense and the leaders of the operation and make the decision? The advice of Valerie Jarrett was more important? If the voters are aware of this story perhaps Obama will no longer 'spike' the Osama bin Laden victory ball and take so much credit for his death.

John Bolton: Obama A Failure In Foreign Policy

John Bolton: The irony is, Obama is campaigning on the basis that he's a success as a foreign policy president


Blog author's comments - Barack Obama takes credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. But, the depressed economy, high unemployment, the obscene levels of spending, the anti-business policies and other failed policies, he continues to blame on the Bush administration.

Newt Gingrich said - when he was ahead in the polls:
I'd Nominate John Bolton For Secretary of State

Obama - Muslim Sensitivities The First Priority

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Always Seems
To Side With The Muslim Sensitivities


Blog author's comments - Barack Obama is what happens when ignorant people vote. With the 2012 election we shall see how much these people have learned about Obama during his first and hopefully only term as President.

video via: daily rushbo

Waterboarding Prisoner - Led to Bin Laden

Rush Limbaugh: Virtually Everything This President And His Party Opposed Was Utilized By Obama To Kill Osama Bin Laden

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CIA chief Panetta: Waterboarding aided bin Laden raid
Washington — Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News.

Panetta, in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared "waterboarding is torture and it's wrong." said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.

"Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question," Panetta said.- Entire story > >

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Rumsfeld told Sean Hannity that enhanced interrogation
techniques did lead the US to Osama Bin Laden


Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: No one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. In fact no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo period. Three people were waterboarded by the CIA away from Guantanamo and then later were brought to Guantanamo. And, in fact, as you pointed out the information from these individuals was critically important.

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Blog author's comments - Barack Obama is taking all credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden which had it's beginning during the Bush administration.

The leftist MSM avoid any mention of what the Bush administration did which eventually led to the intelligence information which helped the CIA find the location of the Al Qaeda leader.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) House Homeland Security Committee Chairman: “The initial information on the courier was obtained from waterboarding in 2003. That came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed… People who were on the ground and very familiar to the situation told me this.”

Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden's most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed's successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.

President Barack Obama closed the prison system.

Obama 2007 - Barack Obama, US Senator (D-IL), in an Oct. 4, 2007 press release titled "Obama: Torture and Secrecy Betray Core American Values," stated:

"The secret authorization of brutal interrogations is an outrageous betrayal of our core values, and a grave danger to our security. We must do whatever it takes to track down and capture or kill terrorists, but torture is not a part of the answer - it is a fundamental part of the problem with this administration's approach. Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them. Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it. It's time to tell the world that America rejects torture without exception or equivocation. It's time to stop telling the American people one thing in public while doing something else in the shadows. No more secret authorization of methods like simulated drowning. When I am president America will once again be the country that stands up to these deplorable tactics. When I am president we won't work in secret to avoid honoring our laws and Constitution, we will be straight with the American people and true to our values."

h/t: uncoverage & dailyrushbo

Osama bin Laden - No Longer Among The Living

Obama Inherited From Bush The Policy
That Led To The Killing Of Osama bin Laden



Limbaugh Expresses Pride In The US
Military Following Death Of Osama bin Laden


Barack Obama is of course taking credit for the death of Osama bin Laden. But what he did was retain many of the policies of George W. Bush. While campaigning for the presidency he said he would stop the Patriot Act, close Gitmo, cut military funding and stop the enhanced interrogation techniques.

Barack Obama:

“I directed Leon Pannetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority”

“I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden”

“I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden”

“I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice”

“Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad Pakistan”

“I have made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam; bin Laden was not a Muslim leader”

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Star Tribune - Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden's most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed's successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.

The news is sure to reignite debate over whether the now-closed interrogation and detention program was successful. President Barack Obama closed the prison system.

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Blog author's comments - The killing of Osama bin Laden will not stop the terrorist attacks. Bin Laden has been sitting on the sidelines for years as a figure head. I expect the attacks to ratchet up a few notches. The terrorists who have been planning and carrying out the attacks will continue as usual. They will now want to avenge the death of their leader.

Barack Obama was provided with accurate intelligence reports as to where Osama bin Laden was living. After speaking with his advisors he ordered the attack. He did what any President would do with the information he was given. He also kept the policies of George W. Bush in place which provided the intelligence information. The military Special Forces did their usual excellent job.


h/t: daily rushbo & GWP