Report: Obama Canceled Bin Laden Raid Three Times

Power Line ^ | JULY 30, 2012 | JOHN HINDERAKER

[RobinMasters]

The Daily Caller has a preview of an explosive claim contained in a book by Richard Miniter that will be published next month: Before finally approving the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama blocked it three times:

At the urging of Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21. The Daily Caller has seen a portion of the chapter in which the stunning revelation appears.

In ”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to the book.

Miniter’s book suggests that Obama got cold feet one more time before finally approving the raid:

Obama administration officials also said after the raid that the president had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his fourth moment of indecision. At the time, the White House blamed the delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

[marygonzo]

Thank you for the excerpt. I am convinced this will be politically damaging to obama because it is ,in fact, his only success. He comes off as “lost” and confused” and indecisive .In essence— WEAK!!!

[albionin]

Well you know it was a “gutsy choice”. It just took him 4 tries to work up the guts.

[Dogbert41]

It's like he was woken up and told, "Seal Team Six is at the compound now".

Inside he's thinking, "Oh fudge".

[GraceG]

If Valerie Jarrett tells Obama to smoke, how high does he get?

[hadaclueonce]

inside the Beltway is a no balls carry zone.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Thank you!

[culpeper]

Interesting point. I’m sure jarrett wanted to wait till the election got closer.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I think I read he was pulled off the golf course- hence the golf shirt and the belligerent, sullen, childish pout.

But where else in this chaotic, financially strapped, crime ridden world would you find this POtuS?

The golf course. Naturally.

Meanwhile mooch is wearing the numbers off of her Black Americn Express, AKA the United States taxpayers.

[Sarajevo]

obama is nothing but a gutless coward.

[gandalftb]

This entire story and that part of Miniter’s book is just pure nonsense.

Anybody remember Dr. Afridi? We recruited him to get into bin Laden’s compound under the guise of a hepatitis inoculation program. That op was needed because we just weren’t sure whom were in the compound.

That op involved 25 tasking and travel contacts with our CIA team in March and April of 2011. After that op terminated mid-April, and we had acquired enough other intel, we waited until the next dark of the moon that occurred on May 2, 2011, the day of the raid.

It’s all a matter of record and science. Obama made the call, that any responsible President would have done. I am no fan of Jarrett but we make ourselves look foolish with pathetic attacks like this.

I am tired of all these “insiders” writing no better than trash novels with a laughable lack of research.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gandalftb.