CIA Memo Reveals Admiral, Not Obama, In Charge of Bin Laden Raid

Bin Laden's Abbottobad Compound

Reuters

Approximately one year after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, a memo written by former CIA Director Leon Panetta has been obtained, revealing that President Obama was not, in fact, in charge of operation strategy in the hunt for the terrorist mastermind.

Panetta received a call from National Security Officer Tom Donilon confirming that President Obama had made the decision to "proceed with the assault" on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan after assessing a risk profile. However, the memo, released by Time Magazine, states that "the timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands."

"The direction is to go in and get bin Laden, and if he is not there, get out," read the memo. It does not clarify whether the intention was to kill bin Laden or to capture him.

However, the memo also shows that President Obama was not in charge of operation strategy as the mission was being carried out. Rather, Panetta noted that, "the timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands."

“The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration," said the memo.

President Obama has said that the decision was one of the “gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.” However, it seems that the “gutsy call,” was actually made by Admiral William McRaven, head of the Joint Special Operations Command.

Two days after the memo was written, bin Laden was assassinated by a team of Navy SEAL commandos.

Following the raid, Pakistan's government claimed it had no knowledge of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad. However, speculations have questioned how the terrorist's presence in the compound could have been undetected by Pakistani officials when Abbottabad is home to a major Pakistani military base and only about 30 miles from the capital city of Islamabad.

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Hi Peter and All,
As I read this last week and shared it on twitter and other sites, I paused to think about the circumstances .. I am not a conspiracy nut-case by far but I still have to wonder a few things . One is why did they dispose of the body so quickly? Why have we not seen one single picture of him dead? I am nearly certain, someone took one of him dead ,a photo such as that would be worth a fortune , wouldn't it ?? Why did they bury him as sea ??? I also asked a person who works with DNA if it were possible to take and confirm DNA in less than a day and I was told, NO ! I have more questions then answers and nothing about this whole thing makes a lot of sense to me . And last is more of a statement , several if not all the men that killed him died in a chopper crash shortly after he was killed. Don't those things leave saying to yourself .. HUMMMM ..?????
Shalom,
Geketa

CIA Memo Reveals Admiral, Not Obama, In Charge of Bin Laden Raid

The memo, written by Leon Panetta noted that, "the timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands."

By Rachel Hirshfeld

First Publish: 4/29/2012, 3:42 PM

Bin Laden's Abbottobad Compound

Reuters

Approximately one year after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, a memo written by former CIA Director Leon Panetta has been obtained, revealing that President Obama was not, in fact, in charge of operation strategy in the hunt for the terrorist mastermind.

Panetta received a call from National Security Officer Tom Donilon confirming that President Obama had made the decision to "proceed with the assault" on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan after assessing a risk profile. However, the memo, released by Time Magazine, states that "the timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands."

"The direction is to go in and get bin Laden, and if he is not there, get out," read the memo. It does not clarify whether the intention was to kill bin Laden or to capture him.

However, the memo also shows that President Obama was not in charge of operation strategy as the mission was being carried out. Rather, Panetta noted that, "the timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands."

“The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration," said the memo.

President Obama has said that the decision was one of the “gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.” However, it seems that the “gutsy call,” was actually made by Admiral William McRaven, head of the Joint Special Operations Command.

Two days after the memo was written, bin Laden was assassinated by a team of Navy SEAL commandos.

Following the raid, Pakistan's government claimed it had no knowledge of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad. However, speculations have questioned how the terrorist's presence in the compound could have been undetected by Pakistani officials when Abbottabad is home to a major Pakistani military base and only about 30 miles from the capital city of Islamabad.

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Hi Peter, Geketa and friends. In this article from the CFP, I found it to be a very interesting read and I think you will too. :)

May Day Joint statement of communist and workers parties

May Day For Communists Or Mayhem Day For OWS

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Hi Peter, Geketa and friends. In this article from the CFP, I found it to be a very interesting read and I think you will too. :)

May Day Joint statement of communist and workers parties

May Day For Communists Or Mayhem Day For OWS

- J.D. Longstreet Tuesday, May 1, 2012

America’s unruly children are vowing to take to the streets and shut down some of America’s major cities this May Day.

It is appropriate that the Occupy Wall Street mob should act up and/or act-out on May Day.

May Day is the day set aside as a celebration day for the communists of the world. OWS’s agenda is anchored deeply in socialism and communism so it is only right and proper that they celebrate something/protest this May Day.

This is the day when socialists, communists, labor unions, and that motley pain in the butt, OWS will link arms and demand redistribution of the wealth of the nation’s taxpayers. In other words: “Take from the Makers and give to the Takers.”

Oh, you say, ALL these organizations aren’t socialist and communists! Well, if it walks like a duck, has feathers like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, and carries signs with communist and socialist slogans on them, it takes no stretch of the imagination, at all, to see them for what they really are.

Celebrations of May Day date back to ancient times as early as before Christ. May Day was a celebration of the spring equinox. Worshipers of the Roman goddess Flora began the festive celebration. A log or pole was erected and dancers would cavort around it with flowers in their hair (hippie-like), snack on all sorts of goodies, and … get plastered.

In 1891 something called International Workers Day laid claim to the day. IWD is a celebration of the international labor movement and other assorted left-wing movements.

Americans of my generation remember, quite clearly, those humongous Communist parades in Red Square in Moscow when Joseph Stalin would take his place, alongside other communist dignitaries, atop Lenin’s tomb and watch as the military might of the Soviet Union would tramp and trundle past. It was a display of communist might, which turned out, in the end, to be a façade.

No matter how it began, it is now internationally recognized as a communist/socialist day of celebration.

If you still have doubts then visit “New Workers Features”.

Here you will find a “May Day Joint statement of communist and workers parties.”

In the statement you will find this:

“We demonstrate against capitalist exploitation and imperialist wars.

For the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the Working class and people!

For the overthrow of the capitalist system.

For working class-people’s power, socialism-communism.”

It rambles on until it finally closes with this:

“We demonstrate everywhere against capitalist exploitation and imperialist wars and interventions at the expense of the peoples. For the right of every people to choose their future without foreign imperialist interventions! Long live the world’s working class! Long live the revolutionary communist worldview, Marxism-Leninism, the scientifically based struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist system in every country, all over the world. This is the way for the peoples to live peacefully, without the barbarity of capitalism, without wars.

WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

They really need some new material. They’ve been spouting the same old tired propaganda since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917!

Meantime, back at the gulag, Occupy Wall Street is planning to “ … join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers’ Day. They plan marches from Union Square to Lower Manhattan and a “pop-up occupation” of Bryant Park on Sixth Avenue, across the street from Bank of America’s Corp.’s 55-story tower.” You may read the entire story here.

Ah. It MUST be spring because the streets are filled with blooming idiots.

Workers of the world, we suggest you thank God you have a job and get back to it.