Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: P-Marlowe
Actually a 25 minute blackout of a 40 minute raid. And so it begins. We didn't know what was going on...

Read the article below if you want to get sick. I guess they were all watching DWTS?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8493391/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Blackout-during-raid-on-bin-Laden-compound.html

By Steven Swinford 10:25PM BST 04 May 2011
Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.

A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.

In an interview with PBS, Mr Panetta said: “Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.

57 posted on 05/05/2011 9:41:17 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies ]


To: 240B

Well, everybody looks shocked when they have allergies dont’cha know. Phhhttt!


60 posted on 05/05/2011 9:43:30 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

To: 240B
In an interview with PBS, Mr Panetta said: “Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn't know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.

That is probably not true. If it were, then all the billions of dollars spent with Lockheed, BAE, etc. for C3 systems by the Pentagon and CIA were wasted. The whole point of those systems is to feed real time data back to the commanders in the USA. IF they really did fail that's more significant news than the outcome of the mission itself.

63 posted on 05/05/2011 9:48:37 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

To: 240B

On another note. Obama even showing this picture is far and away an abuse of power and WH intel. That bastard needs his ass kicked as soon as he gets off the swing set.


64 posted on 05/05/2011 9:48:57 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson