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Book bombshell: Obama canceled Bin Laden ‘kill’ raid three times at Jarrett’s urging
The Daily Caller ^ | July 29,2012 | David Martosko

Posted on 07/30/2012 7:56:16 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.

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.

But when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.

“President Obama’s greatest success was actually his greatest failure,” Miniter told The Daily Caller Friday. ”Leading From Behind,“ he said, traces the arc of six key Obama administration decisions, and shows how the president made them — and, often, failed to make them.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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To: Hojczyk

Just heard Todd Starnes on the radio doing a segment about this.


21 posted on 07/30/2012 8:43:56 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: listenhillary

Get the Ghostery addon for Firefox and it will block the malware........there are a lot of them.


22 posted on 07/30/2012 8:47:55 AM PDT by Datom
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To: Hojczyk
This is not a new revelation. I am trying to find the an article I recall reading on this subject. Apparently, Panetta and Clinton were behind this raid. Obama again delayed the raid due to weather. Panetta maneuvered Obama to give a standing order to raid when the weather was good.

The raid was on Sunday, Obama was pulled off the golf course. In the War Room Pic, he is NOT at the Table. Clinton, Gates and even Biden have a table spot.


23 posted on 07/30/2012 8:49:59 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Datom

We’re thinking that it is not really malware. Rather someone reporting it as malware to scare visitors away.

I’ll check into Ghostery though.


24 posted on 07/30/2012 8:53:17 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Hojczyk

He didn’t make that decision. - paraphrase, Barack Obama


25 posted on 07/30/2012 8:53:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Hojczyk

bkmk


26 posted on 07/30/2012 8:53:56 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Datom

I have Ghostery and am unable to access the Daily Caller. Hmmmmmmm. Dear Leader and his flying monkeys not liking this report????


27 posted on 07/30/2012 8:55:26 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: GoldenPup

I heard that, too. It was practically a Panetta/Hillary coup that Obama and Jarrett were surprised by. I also read on FR that Obama had a statement drafted to blame the military in case of the operation’s failure.


28 posted on 07/30/2012 8:57:43 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: TigerClaws

Valerie Jarrett: Iranian of the Day!

“Every memory from Iran is a very happy memory,” Jarrett told me in an e-mail...”

http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett


29 posted on 07/30/2012 8:58:04 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It’s already on many other sites. If they did try, they failed to keep a lid on this story.


30 posted on 07/30/2012 8:58:45 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary

Here’s DC’s Twitter account saying what is going on:

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller


31 posted on 07/30/2012 9:05:39 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: CaptainKrunch

Wow! Almost sounds like what Frank Sinatra said about Raymond Shaw in the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. It just rolled off his tongue without thought.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/


32 posted on 07/30/2012 9:13:50 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (EAT MORE CHICKEN! Beef is too high!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Is it this story?

http://emergingcorruption.com/2011/05/4762/


33 posted on 07/30/2012 9:16:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (EAT MORE CHICKEN! Beef is too high!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yeah, that’s it.


34 posted on 07/30/2012 9:22:28 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Hojczyk

Obama is taking credit for the kill,but I believe if the facts are known, the Navy figured a way to go behind Jarrett’s back and get the job done.


35 posted on 07/30/2012 9:25:26 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Hojczyk

I am sure that all of this dithering will be outlined in that movie Katherine Bigelow is making set to be released right before the election.


36 posted on 07/30/2012 9:58:24 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: listenhillary

I was getting that with Firefox browser early this morning. If those that pull the strings are trying to keep people from reading this story, it’s not going to work.
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I got that Firefox Warning on dailycaller.com. Looks to me like someone at Firefox is playing politics. Is FR next?


37 posted on 07/30/2012 10:15:42 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Dally caller did have some malware. It has been fixed, but it will take a day before Google gives it a greenlight.


38 posted on 07/30/2012 10:26:08 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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