That’s exactly the issue I have with the story: everyone at the WH has pulled the trigger in the past.
The UBL kill - harm’s way, no problem.
And... no one in the chain of command looks better for not pulling the trigger. If there is only the people in the chain of command - there is no upside to what they did, only downside.
That’s what leads me to speculate that there has to be an outside decision-maker.
If the “alphabet, state” media buries this, they will be seen for what they are by MANY more people than are currently aware of their collusion with Obama/global-environmental community politics.