This is a travesty. Those men have been asking for security of details since the mission and they’ve been ignored for blatantly political reasons.
First, the operational details released will endanger them and other special operators on future missions.
Next, it will endanger them personally as nuts try to search them out.
Third, it will give ideas on methods to other nations’ special operation forces.
Finally, it will endanger the nation in that the release of details makes future missions that much harder to accomplish.
This is the TERRIBLE after-effect of the blatant rush to the camera by Obama and other glory hounds from John McCain to Geraldo Rivera....who actually broadcast a former special operator last week pleading that details not be pursued because it endangers lives.
Those fine men have been betrayed by their CIC, there is just no getting around that.
This president had a solemn duty to protect them and all operational details. It was his job to demand secrecy.
He ignored his duty for the sake of a temporary bump in the polls. His popularity was more important than their safety.
This is not leadership, this is not greatness, this is not American.
Other nations - - including China, Russia, North Korea, etc. - - will now feel that they have carte blanche to launch assassination missions against anybody they feel like labeling a "terrorist". "Hey, the United States does it so why can't we?"
Imagine how the Israelis must feel. When the Mossad takes somebody out there is nothing left but a ghost and an unsubstantiated rumor. When the selfish Ubama takes somebody out, it's a sparkling campaign commercial.
I can't blame these SEALS for feeling like they've been sold out. Now, every Navy SEAL has extra reason to always be looking over his shoulder.