"Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says the White House required the CIA to attempt to capture bin Laden alive, rather than kill him."
"What impact did the wording of the orders have on the CIAs ability to get bin Laden? It reduced the odds from, say, a 50 percent chance down to, say, 25 percent chance that we were going to be able to get him, said Schroen."
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