Posted on 05/10/2011 12:50:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PRESIDENT Barack Obama was so keen to ensure the mission to nab Osama bin Laden was successful he even kept it secret from his wife.
The al-Qaeda chief was shot dead in his bedroom at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last week.
Obama, 49, said: "I didn't tell most people here in the White House. I didn't tell my own family.
"It was that important for us to maintain operational security."
The president kept the plan secret from wife Michelle, 47, and spent the weekend before the raid visiting tornado victims, speaking at a space shuttle launch and attending the White House correspondents' dinner.
Obama added: "I made the decision Thursday night and then we flew off to look at the tornado damage, to go to Cape Canaveral to make a speech. And then we had the White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday night.
"This was in the back of my mind all weekend."
Obama spoke for the first time about how he watched the "tense" 40-minute raid live from the White House situation room, after earlier easing the tension with a game of golf.
He said: "It was the longest 40 minutes of my life."
Yesterday, a Washington Post poll found Obama's approval rating had jumped eight per cent to 57 per cent since the killing of Bin Laden.
CIA data experts are probing information found in Bin Laden's bolthole for leads on tracking down other al-Qaeda members. The data has already revealed details about a planned attack on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Last night, a US intelligence source said the data suggested that al-Qaeda were interested in hitting Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Pakistan have launched a probe into how Bin Laden was able to live in the country undetected for at least six years.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani branded allegations of Pakistani complicity and incompetence as "absurd".
Gilani said: "We are determined to get to the bottom of the how, when and why regarding his presence in Abbottabad. We did not invite al-Qaeda to Pakistan."
Yeah, since when is the first moochess privy to secret info?What a charrade....
He reminds me of a 9 year old who has to impress his parents with his good deed...”Look Mommy! I even cleaned my room!”
Not only is 0bama the meanest, baddest, most lethal SEAL there’s ever been, and single handedly took out OBL; now he’s James Bond.
They’re laying it kinda thick. Anything to prop up their puppet.
UNSEEMLY! Please tell me the Sheeple won’t fall for this.
Barack, Barack Obama will never sound as good as Bond, James Bond.
He didn’t tell his wife, because the grownups didn’t tell him until the last minute..
Wow’ little Barry deserves a gold star and a cookie
WOW...Great. He actually did what any enlisted man would do automatically.
Obama, 49, said: "I didn't tell most people here in the White House. I didn't tell my own family.
I wish that the operation was implemented without telling you.
"This was in the back of my mind all weekend."
The operation should have been front and center all weekend. What a jerk. 'Let me think for a moment. White House Correspondent Dinner or daring raid to get Osama. I'm kinda hungry, those Seals will be Okay'.
He said: "It was the longest 40 minutes of my life."
Your presidency will be the longest 4 years of my life.
Gee, and exactly what is Michelle’s security clearance again?
Oh, what’s the use? It’s completely amazing that Obama himself has ANY security clearance.
If, prior to his election to the Illinois State Senate, he had applied for a job on any US Military base, I doubt seriously he could have swung a Secret clearance.
The world is absolutely bizarre, and getting worse.
Why would she be told? Good grief.
Well, I’m sure first ladies do hear alot of info from the president husbands.
Reggie Love, on the other hand, shared a pillow with Barry but “cross my heart” promised not to tell.
OBL: Mission to kill al-Qaeda leader was so secret I didn't even know, reveals Obama
“Obama was so keen to ensure the mission to nab Osama bin Laden was successful he even kept it secret from his wife. “
IOW he tells her all the highly classified information routinely, this was one of the very few things he didn’t tell her.
He was also boasting that he didn’t tell most people at the WH — meaning that he usually tells everything to everyone in the WH. I wonder how many maids and cooks do they have who spy for China and Al Qaeda.
He clearly cannot be trusted with national security.
It's one of life's mysteries. You take a braggart, obnoxious jerk and they will invariably attract followers.
People will fall for this crap.
That is witty.
After the news came out he probably gave her an extra tamale to console her about not being included.
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