2008: “Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney’s private assassination team.”
2011: “I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden.”
2008: “Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial.”
2011: “I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden.”
2008: “Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated.”
2011: “Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden.”
Really? Are all those quotes real? Can you give citations?
If so, those would be the greatest talking points against Bambi as CIC, not that I think for a moment the GOP would use them.
You were right to call me on that and ask me to source it. I can’t. All I can find are repeats of it and one debunking by Politifact. I should have done that to begin with and won’t use it again. My apologies for spreading it.