Posted on 06/05/2013 7:32:27 AM PDT by Perdogg
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that carried out the Osama Bin Laden raid and named the unit’s ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker Mark Boal, according to a draft Pentagon inspector general’s report obtained by a watchdog group.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
yes, the United States of America exists and this is our First in action, while Americans pray and speak and beg God, America does not have to utilize our Second. Americans exhaust all possibilities. While I agree the Second may have to be utilized. Let them (the obama crowd) fire the first shots, please.
I like that first link.
Oh please don’t mistake my hopelessness for objectionable action. I won’t fire the first shot or even entertain the idea.
"Oh, that's just Sandy Leon being sloppy. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy! You know how sloppy Sandy Leon can be!!"
Remind Me!
February 11, 2013, 6:00 AM
The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed
For the first time, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells his story — speaking not just about the raid and the three shots that changed history, but about the personal aftermath for himself and his family. And the startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled warriors carry on with their lives.
The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed his wife and kids or pay for their medical care.
What is much harder to understand is that a man with hundreds of successful war missions, one of the most decorated combat veterans of our age, who capped his career by terminating bin Laden, has no landing pad in civilian life.
Others also knew, from the commander-in-chief on down. The bin Laden shooting was a staple of presidential-campaign brags. One big-budget movie, several books, and a whole drawerful of documentaries and TV films have fortified the brave images of the Shooter and his ST6 Red Squadron members.
There is commerce attached to the mission, and people are capitalizing. Just not the triggerman. While others collect, he is cautious and careful not to dishonor anyone. His manners come at his own expense.
“No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job,” Barack Obama said last Veterans’ Day, “or a roof over their head, or the care that they have earned when they come home.”
But the Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:
Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.
When the family asked about any kind of government protection should the Shooter’s name come out, they were advised that they could go into a witness-protection-like program.
Just as soon as the Department of Defense creates one.
“They [SEAL command] told me they could get me a job driving a beer truck in Milwaukee” under an assumed identity. Like Mafia snitches, they would not be able to contact their families or friends. “We’d lose everything.”
http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313
Good, am counting on you.
Days Go By!
yes, we shall talk about tomorrow .. tomorrow.
You’re counting on me to do what? Stay strong? I’m trying. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.
Right there with you FRiend! Weaving a rope and tying knots.
Panetta on National Security Leaks: President Obama Did It, and That Makes It Okay
by Bryan Preston
September 11, 2012 - 6:51 am
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a striking admission today. In an interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, Panetta threatened legal action against the Navy SEAL who wrote, under a pen name, about the raid that killed terrorist Osama bin Laden. Panetta said that any sanctions against the SEAL, who wrote No Easy Day under the name Mark Owen, would be intended to send a message that others entrusted with national security secrets should not divulge what they know.
O’Donnell then asked Panetta a direct question: What’s the difference between what the SEAL did and the leaks that have come from the administration to journalists and filmmakers? Panetta spun: “There’s a fundamental difference. The people that presented some of the details of the operations were authorized to do that by the president of the United States, who has that authority to do that, and inform the American people as to what happened. In this case, that was not the case. And that’s the difference.”
Among the information that Panetta now says the president authorized to be released were the identities of the leaders of the SEAL team that killed bin Laden. Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers released that classified information to Hollywood producers who were working on the film Zero Dark Thirty, which was at that time intended for release just weeks before the 2012 presidential election. Vickers remains in his job. No one in the administration has come under any penalty for the numerous and damaging leaks of other operations, including President Obama’s “kill list,” US assistance to the rebellion in Syria, and the ongoing cyber war against Iran.
Now we know why: Despite the administration’s denials, President Obama himself authorized those leaks.
More: SEAL Team Six parents say the leaks put targets on the troops’ backs.
This should be a prison term.
You won’t have to fire the first shot. These fascist bastards will generate a “1776 moment”, either the first shot or an over the edge equivalent.
“...I’ll bet this is the first time Obama has heard anything about this....”
Oh, he’ll find out about this the same way he finds out about averything. From the newspaper.
What a POS!
My concern as of late is somewhat the opposite of what you describe.
What happens if our government proves to be so totally inept in their ability to respond to a shot over our bow from, say, Russia or China that it leaves our entire country vulnerable? What happens if all of these rats run from a sinking ship and leave behind a power vacuum in DC? Do we run toward the gash in the bow and pray we can steer the ship to safer waters, or do we succumb to the usurpers who are bound to come rushing to DC to take over (i.e. the Chicom or Russian military or worse, Sharia-imposing Islamists)?
“...buried on page 4.....”
More likely buried deep in the classified section.
The idiots excuse worked without question before....
“We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.”
— the left’s god Hussein
I feel to left out. If only I knew something classified as Top Secret so I could leak it. All the cool kids are doing it.
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