[newzjunkey]

Full title was too long: "Robert Gates: We Had Agreed We Wouldn’t Release Details About the Operation Against OBL But 'That All Fell Apart'"

[grumpygresh]

I hope Gates writes a tell all book before the 2012 election. If he has anything more detailing this type of galling incompetence, it would be a best seller and Gates could help save us from more 0bama.

[vrwc54]

Robert Gates is doing the cya:

Outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates is giving his boss President Obama strong reviews for ordering the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

"This is one of the most courageous calls -- decisions -- that I think I've ever seen a president make," Gates tells CBS' 60 Minutes in an interview to air Sunday night.

In excerpts released today, Gates said it was a "gutsy call" because so much could have gone wrong.

"This was a very risky operation," Gates said. "So, I was very concerned. So was the president."

Then there was the fact that Obama and his aides could not be certain bin Laden was even in the compound in Pakistan that was the object of the raid. "There was a lot of uncertainty about whether he was there," Gates said. "And that was my principal concern."

[aruanan]

Frankly, a week ago Sunday, in the Situation Room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out bin Laden. That all fell apart on Monday, the next day.

Hey, Barry is taking a page from Jesse Jackson who got everyone present at the murder of MLK, Jr. to agree to stonewall the press and then rushed back to Chicago, stopped by the local Moo and Oink or its equivalent for some blood to spatter his shirt, and then called the press to hear him lie about holding the dying MLK, Jr. in his arms as though MLK, Jr. was passing him the civil rights baton.