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Official: Obama Admin Drafted Memo to Blame Military If Bin Laden Mission Failed
Fox News Nation ^ | May 07, 2012

Posted on 05/07/2012 8:53:26 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity tonight that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

“That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)… I think there’s going to be more that’s going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough.“

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To: US Navy Vet

41 posted on 05/07/2012 9:24:19 AM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: RightGeek

I’ve just about stopped watching Fox and the rest since the Florida primaries. I’ve not missed anything, but I’d like to see what they say about this if anything. I’d like to see if those POS reporters ask the POS press agent about the POS imposter in chief.

I’d love to see this memo. In reality it might not be as bad as it sounds now, and they’ll put a spin on it, but I’d love to see the memo.


42 posted on 05/07/2012 9:25:12 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: US Navy Vet

Fecal Material like this os going to FORCE me to VOTE for Mittens! ^%**^ it!


43 posted on 05/07/2012 9:27:50 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Don’t stand too near Obama if there’s a bus close........


44 posted on 05/07/2012 9:31:17 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: US Navy Vet
I thought I could not despise Obama anymore than I did. Actually, that memo had already come out, it's not secret. It was awfully weasel-worded, basically, giving the Admiral (not a general) the authority to proceed, *unless* additional "risk factors" were discovered, in which case, he was to check back.

Obviously, "risk factors", additional and otherwise can always be found, a posteri, in the face of disaster. The memo in question was not drafted as a contingency, as most people here seem to be assuming. Rather, the admiral was given authority to proceed, but the memo was worded to make it clear that if anything went wrong, it was the admiral's ass and *not* Obama's that was on the line.

To me this is worse, he abjured responsibility and then claimed credit.

I was wrong, I can despise Obama even more than I did.

Obama clearly, fully and realistically expected the LSM to use this thin reed to vilify the military man in command and protect himself in the event of failure.

I still cannot hate the LSM more than I do.

45 posted on 05/07/2012 9:40:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Rush: If Ward Churchill had a daughter, she’d look like Elizabeth Warren.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Remember, Affirmative Action recipients are not required to accept responsibility.


46 posted on 05/07/2012 9:43:46 AM PDT by crosshairs
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To: US Navy Vet

That, standard procedure when ‘Carter’ “botched” the hostage rescue? Or is it typical for all presidents?/s


47 posted on 05/07/2012 9:52:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: US Navy Vet
If you were to line up 100 people and ask them who ordered the Normandy Invasion, I wonder how many would know the answer.

The Mukasey piece in the Wall Street Journal should be an eye-opener for people who worship Obama.

48 posted on 05/07/2012 9:55:15 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: NonValueAdded

“The Buck Stops.....Over There!”


49 posted on 05/07/2012 10:00:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

Thanks to you Army Air Corps for this one...

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50 posted on 05/07/2012 10:02:48 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: US Navy Vet

I almost wish the mission had failed to turn up bin laden./sarc


51 posted on 05/07/2012 10:08:02 AM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: US Navy Vet
Any veteran or active duty military man (or woman) that supports Obama needs to read the oath they took over again and reconsider.
52 posted on 05/07/2012 10:19:48 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug; All

Former AG Michael Mukasey will be on Megan Kelly’s America Life shortly and talking about it


53 posted on 05/07/2012 10:22:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

How did Mukasey find out about it?


54 posted on 05/07/2012 10:24:45 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: vetvetdoug

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

So what do we do when Part One of the Oath conflicts w/ Part Two?


55 posted on 05/07/2012 10:27:32 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Why?

That sounds EXACTLY like the Obama regime we all know and *choke* love.


56 posted on 05/07/2012 10:32:39 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

This is the most disgusting Obama revelation to date. It’s much more than our proud and brave military should be asked to bear.


57 posted on 05/07/2012 10:40:11 AM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: nikos1121
Watch the video and you'll find out.

Mukasey: Memo Was Drafted to Protect Obama From Blame If OBL Mission Failed

58 posted on 05/07/2012 10:44:40 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: US Navy Vet

Obama is a sick person. The SOB needs to go.


59 posted on 05/07/2012 10:45:17 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: US Navy Vet

At this point in time with this clown, this Chicago Street Punk in the White House I think we have all pretty much figured on this sort of behavior, thus I can’t really get all surprised, or shocked myself at such news.

This guy Obama, and every single damned one of the impaired Leftist “brains” that occupy the cranium of our Government today must be removed one way or the other.


60 posted on 05/07/2012 11:02:47 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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