TIME Magazine obtained a memo written by then CIA Director Leon Panetta outlining the Chain of Command parameters of the Osama Bin Laden mission that took place in May of 2011. This memo makes clear the version of a Barack Obama “gutsy call” is in fact far from the truth - just as our own White House Insider had indicated to us in almost real time in the moments after the story of the mission was breaking.
Here is an excerpt from Breitbart.com regarding the developing story:
WHAT GUTSY CALL? CIA MEMO REVEALS ADMIRAL CONTROLLED BIN LADEN MISSION
Today, Time magazine got hold of a memo written by then-CIA head Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obama’s team to greenlight the bin Laden mission. Here’s the text, which summarized the situation:
Received phone call from Tom Donilon who stated that the President made a decision with regard to AC1 [Abbottabad Compound 1]. The decision is to proceed with the assault.
The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven’s hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45 am.
…The memo puts all control in the hands of Admiral McRaven – the “timing, operational decision making and control” are all up to McRaven. So the notion that Obama and his team were walking through every stage of the operation is incorrect. The hero here was McRaven, not Obama. And had the mission gone wrong, McRaven surely would have been thrown under the bus.
…President Obama made the right call to give the green light to the mission. But he did it in a way that he could shift the blame if things went wrong. Typical Obama. And typical of him to claim full credit for it, when he didn’t do anything but give a vague nod, while putting his top military officials at risk of taking the hit in case of a bad turn. LINK
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HERE NOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE VERSION GIVEN TO US BY WHI BEFORE BARACK OBAMA HAD EVEN ANNOUNCED THE OSAMA BIN LADEN MISSION TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC:
UM: You stated that President Obama was “overruled” by military/intelligence officials regarding the decision to send in military specialists into the Osama Bin Laden compound. Was that accurate?
WHI: I was told – in these exact terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama) I have since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant, as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.” There appears NOT to have been an outright overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there was no specific position from the president to do so. President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.
…Every time military and intelligence officials appeared to make progress in forming a position, Jarrett would intervene and the stalling would begin again. Hillary started the ball really rolling as far as pressuring Obama began, but it was Panetta and Petraeus who ultimately pushed Obama to finally act – sort of. Panetta was receiving significant reports from both his direct CIA sources, as well as Petraeus-originating Intel. Petraeus was threatening to act on his own via a bombing attack. Panetta reported back to the president that a bombing of the compound would result in successful killing of Osama Bin Laden, and little risk to American lives. Initially, as he had done before, the president indicated a willingness to act. But once again, Jarrett intervened, convincing the president that innocent Pakistani lives could be lost in such a bombing attack, and Obama would be left attempting to explain Panetta’s failed policy. Again Obama hesitated – this time openly delaying further meetings to discuss the issue with Panetta. A brief meeting was held at this time with other officials, including Secretary Gates and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Gates, like Panetta, was unable to push the president to act. It was at this time that Gates indicated to certain Pentagon officials that he may resign earlier than originally indicated – he was that frustrated. Both Panetta and Clinton convinced him to stay on and see the operation through.
What happened from there is what was described by me as a “masterful manipulation” by Leon Panetta. Panetta indicated to Obama that leaks regarding knowledge of Osama Bin Laden’s location were certain to get out sooner rather than later, and action must be taken by the administration or the public backlash to the president’s inaction would be “…significant to the point of political debilitation.” It was at that time that Obama stated an on-ground campaign would be far more acceptable to him than a bombing raid. This was intended as a stalling tactic, and it had originated from Jarrett. Such a campaign would take both time, and present a far greater risk of failure. The president had been instructed by Jarrett to inform Mr., Panetta that he would have sole discretion to act against the Osama Bin Laden compound. Jarrett believed this would further delay Panetta from acting, as the responsibility for failure would then fall almost entirely on him. What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound. Basically, the whole damn operation was already ready to go – including the specific team support Intel necessary to engage the enemy within hours of being given notice. Panetta then made plans to proceed with an on-ground assault. This information reached either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates first (likely via military contacts directly associated with the impending mission) who then informed the other. Those two then met with Panetta, who informed each of them he had been given the authority by the president to proceed with a mission if the opportunity presented itself. Both Gates and Clinton warned Panetta of the implications of that authority – namely he was possibly being made into a scapegoat. Panetta admitted that possibility, but felt the opportunity to get Bin Laden outweighed that risk. During that meeting, Hillary Clinton was first to pledge her full support for Panetta, indicating she would defend him if necessary. Similar support was then followed by Gates. The following day, and with Panetta’s permission, Clinton met in private with Bill Daley and urged him to get the president’s full and open approval of the Panetta plan. Daley agreed such approval would be of great benefit to the action, and instructed Clinton to delay proceeding until he had secured that approval. Daley contacted Clinton within hours of their meeting indicating Jarrett refused to allow the president to give that approval. Daley then informed Clinton that he too would fully support Panetta in his actions, even if it meant disclosing the president’s indecision to the American public should that action fail to produce a successful conclusion. Clinton took that message back to Panetta and the CIA director initiated the 48 hour engagement order. At this point, the President of the United States was not informed of the engagement order – it did not originate from him, and for several hours after theorder had been given and the special ops forces were preparing for action into Pakistan from their position in Afghanistan, Daley successfully kept Obama and Jarrett insulated from that order.
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It appears highly unlikely the similarities between the memo obtained by TIME Magazine from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta that seems to link Panetta and military officials as the true acting powers behind the Osama Bin Laden mission and the version of given to us by WHI is mere coincidence – far from it. What this memo confirms is what we (myself and my readers) have long known – Barack Obama was far from the “hero” of the Osama Bin Laden mission but rather, as always, an uncertain and isolated president leaning heavily on the influence of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. But once the mission was accomplished and safely deemed a success, he was only too happy to play the role of Commander in Chief.
I must also wonder if the timing of the memo’s release has anything to do with the Obama administration’s more recent willingness to push Leon Panetta out for his travel expenses flying from D.C. to his home in California.
Perhaps a bit of a message from Mr. Panetta to the administration they would do well not to push him too hard?
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NOTE: Thank you to Jo Anne Moretti for bringing the CIA Memo story to my attention.
Supposedly bin Laden has been dead for quite some time which makes sense seeing as how he was suffering from kidney disease back in 2001. Benazir Bhutto said he was already dead years ago and then she was assinated shortly after. Coincidence? i think not
Several ppl made that exact same statement.But they’re no longer here either to validate their own words.Makes you wonder,does it not.
Go ahead, puch Panetta out! Throw him under the bus! Heck, this White House is so paranoid, they’ve virtually alienated everyone who once supported them (don’t include me among them – I’ve always opposed this baby-butchering tyrant.) He has more enemies today than ever – and the number grows by the hour!
To Obama:
You can’t buy your way out of this one, Mr. President. Caligula proved to be a model, especially for the first 2 years of his regency. What remains is for you to name your horse (Michelle) as a Senator or some other high position. Heck, you do it with Czars! Why not Michelle? She has a mane like a horse, does she not? And you know exactly what I mean, eh? Yaks have less hair!
Hope this adds to your paranoia, Mr. President. Electorally (and only electorally speaking) we are ALL out to get you! Boo!
Sorry to be so peripheral, UM. You KNOW that they read this stuff, don’t you? (ATTACK WATCH and all that?)
Obama can’t even find his college transcripts, birth certificate, or any other pertinent information about himself! Why should he be given credit for finding UBL? Heck, BHO can’t even find his own backside in the dark with both hands!
Horse named Michelle?
http://www.freakingnews.com/Play-Time-Pictures-108432.asp
That’s just a toy Barry has in that holster, right? And dig those girly boots!
Mooch is just loving it.:)
Darn it all! I’m going riding this weekend! Now I don’t wanna! (pouting).
FLOTUS = horse? Really? Thanks VTX for that dazzling political analysis.
Man oh man I forgot how good that interview with insider was that blew the lid of the Obama version of how tough and kick ass he was in getting Bin Laden. I also agree with UM that Panetta is probably who leaked this memo or made sure it got out there. Make Obama shit himself a little bit. As in back the fuck off bro I worked with the Clintons for years you think I’m afraid of you??? Thanks for the update UM. Always cool to see the mainstream media hop on the Insider bandwagon and prove them right again. Seems to be happening more and more lately.
Yes, I posted this a couple of hours ago at the previous thread. I want this to come out SOOOOooooooo bad – especially since they are using it as a “positive” for Obama. But I know how that goes.
I’m also still concernd about that Spanish company that they have enlisted to count the votes and give them the win at election time. Can nothing be done about this? Does WHI/WSI know — do something? Get it out in the news – go viral? Everyone – please check out and do what you can……….
http://usamericanfreedom.com/2012/04/06/update-michael-savage/
Yes!!….. Truthandjustice
I worry about Soros Co Counting our Electronic Votes!!
The only way around this is for Obama to be exposed & removed from Our WH “before” the election…..
Obama needs to be charged with TREASON against America!!
He used forged documents to be elected to be POTUS…. That is Treason!!! Also he is trying to destroy our economy & crush Capitalism in the US!!
Thanks UM, WHI & WSI !!!
We the people want to know the truth!! We want Obama to pay for his crimes against America!!
Really mysterious how no one’s following up on this Scytl/SOE/Soro conspiracy . . . could Stuxnet2 be in the works?
Ulsterman, please keep it up. We value your courage to deliver the info from very reliable sources WHI and WSI. I know you have to protect your sources, but we must spread the word. There is a small site that a lot of like minded folks began to follow after the death of Andrew Breitbart. It is called navygentleman.com. It is a start-up, but is quickly growing.
Andrew Breitbart’s death was too much of a “coincidence”!!
He dies of a Heart Attack the night before he was going to expose Obama!!
Andrew was an “Outspoken Patriot”!!
Please click on Link below!!…………….. Assassination by induced Heart Attack!!
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/232912-Assassinations-by-induced-heart-attack-and-cancer
Assassinations by induced heart attack and cancer
Press Core
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:04 CST
Existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack!
In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light.
The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack.
This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed from a pistol. The gun was capable of shooting the icy projectile with enough speed that the dart would go right through the clothes of the target and leave just a tiny red mark. Once in the body the poison would melt and be absorbed into the blood and cause a heart attack!
The poison was developed to be “undetectable” by modern autopsy procedures.
” . . . I must also wonder if the timing of the memo’s release has anything to do with the Obama administration’s more recent willingness to push Leon Panetta out for his travel expenses flying from D.C. to his home in California. . .”
There are no coincidences.
UM: “NOTE: Thank you to Jo Anne Moretti for bringing the CIA Memo story to my attention.”
I’ve wondered how one does bring something to UM’s attention. I have looked for an e-mail or Contact and could never find one.
Mustang, I agree with you! Why cant UM have a mailbox on this site?? I dont have facebook and I suspect that is how he gets mail.
@ Obeline~~ I agree with you too! There are no coincidences!
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UM used the same pic (of Obama in The Situation Room) when UM posted the full interview in May of 2011 on Newsflavor. That picture says it all. If a picture could say a thousand words, the one above reeks of a cowardly, insulated Obama who’s body language speaks volumes.
The picture was in total agreement with WH Insider’s analysis.
I don’t believe anything they say that comes out of Washington.
@ UM, make note of this Obama story~~~
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/vacation-backlash-blue-collar-dems-jealous-angry-obamas/538141
Excerpt follows from the above link~~
“Blue collar Democratic voters, stuck taking depressing “staycations” because they can’t afford gas and hotels, are resentful of the first family’s 17 lavish vacations around the world and don’t want their tax dollars paying for the Obamas’ holidays, according to a new analysis of swing voters.”
It will be interesting to watch of these people gradually turn on Barry. The sharks smell blood in the water.
“Blue Collar Democrats”
i.e. white Democrats- Reagan Democrats.
The White House has lost them. And they damn well know that if the election were held tomorrow, they would suffer a 2010 level of landslide defeat. That’s the real situation that the White House has attempted to deflect from with War on Women, War on Students, War on Hispanics, War on Blacks etc.
The White House re-election strategy will rely upon isolating each of the myriad interest-vote blocs that make up the Democrat voting base, create a crisis tailer-made to each group and drive up anger and hence turnout by convincing them that it’s war and the GOP are the enemy(“…punish your enemies!”).
War on Blacks- it’s “Justice for Trayvon” and lingering structural racism.
War on Women- it’s !Contraception!, equality of pay and return to Middle Ages
War on Students- it’s open bribery in a one trillion dollar vote buying scheme.
War on Hispanics- The White House doesn’t care if the Arizona law is struck down, they want Hispanics active and angry at the anti-Amnesty, pro law and order Right. The case against Arpaio will be going to trial this summer, and might last through the Fall, perfect for the White House in keeping the temperature up. Also, watch Los Angeles, as the issue of Driver Licenses for illegals has been introduced within the last couple of months along with decreased penalties for currently unlicensed drivers- both of these initiatives have been quite deliberately framed to build on hostility between the anti and pro-Amnesty camps. I have my suspicions that LA mayor Villaraigosa was offered the chair of the upcoming DNC Convention in return for pushing these issues.
War on …- who next? My guess we are going to be discovering new minority voting blocs that we’ve never known about and the spectacle of the White House stirring up hell over them. This summer our country is going to burn. If Barack can’t have his girl- she’s going to hurt before she gets away. She’s going to get slashed.
How the Romney campaign and the Republicans have responded so far is the subject of another comment, but the response has been pathetic where there has been one. I’ve watched three years of non-leadership from Romney and I don’t see him stepping up now. With every major outrage coming from DC over the last three years, Romney has been either completely out to lunch or a day late. When others on the Right of national prominence have put themselves on the line to defend our country, and use their influence to sway the debate- taking fire from the Left and State Media of course, but also from supposed allies on the Right- Romney has just not been there. As the White House is stoking full-on Race War over Florida, Romney is joking on dogs. When of all times, we needed a true leader, we’re given this.
To Sartana: “If Barack can’t have his girl- she’s going to hurt before she gets away. She’s going to get slashed.” He’s not ‘into’ girls. He could care less about the girl. If he doesn’t get his way, he’ll slash her up anyway. He’s a narcissist and a misogynist, anti-Christian, anti-Semite, hatemongering marxist.
BTW, Romney just got ‘all in’, though not officially until the Convention in Tampa. Until then, its best when waging war not to let the enemy see your hand. Small moves and strategy will win the day. Don’t discount Romney. Take your nay-saying denigration to the left-sites where they will be played to a packed crowd. Not here.
I agree with TtLG.
We can just be cool. Remain cool. As a cucumber if you will. It seems to me that if The Regime wants everybody mad at each other, then we had better exercise a great deal of self-control and not be fearful or angry.
Why is it so hard to accept that Obama made a good decision, with limited info that bin Laden was even there, and everything turned out for the best? These petty partisan attempts to deny the president any credit for this success are transparent and sad.
Obama has done lots of things I disagree with but he made the right call here, thank God.
Because killing an enemy of America is something “Obama” finds repugnant. He has empathy for the enemies of America. He has written and spoken of that. Your disappointment lies in the fact that the “Obama” campaign was going to try to use this as a selling point; and it’s been totally defused.
Isn’t the gist of the story that Barry did not really make much of a decision himself?
“It appears highly unlikely the similarities between the memo obtained by TIME Magazine from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta that seems to link Panetta and military officials as the true acting powers behind the Osama Bin Laden mission…”
And didn’t the SEALS lose a number of men not long after, in strange circumstances?
What is so hard to accept about the fact that Barry is an America-hating ValJarbot?
They’re probably off toe jamming the blues, or whatever even now, a little chanting here, a little hypnosis there, a few pills and/or injections for the one if he’s under the weather, and they’re off again, ready to “bring this mumtha down!” as they like to say.
Mutha!
It was a tragedy when those SEALS went down. But not unusual, they were in COMBAT. Without reasonable evidence, speculating they were murdered in some conspiracy is really grasping. But between birthers, truthers, tenthers, Breitbart-was-assassinated, and other fantasy conspiracies, I suppose wild claims the president murdered American troops are where we are at now. Sigh.
You better not make wild claims then, eh? All that grasping and sighing must really wear you out.
You could take a relaxing hike so as not to get all wound up.
Yaaaaay, Jules!!!
Nexxxxxt: Why, you ask, is it so hard to accept Zero ‘made a good decision’?
I’ll tell you why: Because he is totally incapable of making any decisions – good or bad. He’s proven himself to be a flaccid puppet. Zero has no spine and is incapable of independent thought, and without his trusty teleprompter we’ve seen the sorry truth.
Valerie Jarrett runs the show in the White House – and Zero’s her flunky. Missy Jarrett gets her marching orders from the master himself, George Soros. Zero & Co. are out to decimate America and create some One World nonsense – and anyone who rationalizes otherwise is just a victim of propaganda.
“These petty partisan attempts to deny the president any credit for this success are transparent and sad.” Au contraire: anyone who attempts to give this fraud in the White House credit for any policy that has not failed has been hoarding too many Obamabucks.
Sigh, indeed.
AND NOW THIS: OBAMA IS SPYING ON US:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html
He has a LIST OF WHO DONATES GOP and then you get an email intimidating you. He is a Chicago thug.
This is not only very frightening, it is treasonous! This is yet another impeachable offense.
Just look at “President” Obama in that photo. He looks like a tiny, scared, shrinking little boy.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Look at who is in the center (in charge).
Then look at Obama sitting off to the side looking like he came in from the golf course in a hurry.
And this would explain why the WH couldn’t get the details of the operation straight for several days, having to amend the story countless times, because they didn’t know the real story any better than the rest of us did.
He had nothing to do with the mission other than staying out of the way.
For THAT I will thank him. Nothing else.
Well said. That picture tells more of the story than any memo or WH press statement. If Barry was in command, why isn’t he sitting front and center at the head of the table in the ‘presidential’ leather chair? Why is Barry sitting off to the side in a fold-up chair, pulled out to make him look like part of the decision-making team. Barry is too busy ah-ah-ah-ing, stammering and stuttering aaaaaaaaaaaaand figgiting to decide whether to fish or cut bait. He doesn’t even have access to any communication tool (laptop, blackberry) readily at hand to make him even look like he’s in command. What a scaredy cat pussy, sad-faced fool.
Has everyone forgotten how he flubbed the announcement before starting to read the teleprompter? Some nonsense about waiting for DNA confirmation from earlier in the week. No one can convince me I didn’t hear him stammer through some thin veiled attempt at a statement…even though any trace of the first 10-15 secs of the announcement has been conveniently scrubbed. Even actors get their lines when reading from cue cards. What a putz!
Looks like Hilly-May actually has a bigger stick than Obama…
Sounds like Zero’s setting himself up for major drama here – as predicted?
African Americans for Obama — ‘We’ve got his back’ campaign:
All the phony wars are backfiring . . . but race is simmering nicely . . . an attack on dear leader would ignite everything according to plan . . .
” . . . And there’s another implication to the “get my back” routine – the notion that somebody has to protect Obama from evil people who want to harm him. Typically, when you have someone’s back, it’s because they’re under assault, or fear assault. Obama, however, is president of the United States. He needs to stop whining and do his job. . . ”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/26/Obama-Get-My-Back
Just don’t remind the ESPN-watching golf-playing, hand-wringing present-voting (p)resident Occupier C-in-C, Mr Gutsy Call himself about those Somali pirates, wouldn’t fit the campaign image.
Oh, and forget the SEALS who caught Ahmed Hashim Abed being criminally charged for supposedly having punched him. That doesn’t reflect well on Mr In Charge.
All of the credit, none of the blame, please; Barry wants to Win The Future
According to Fox News, Congress is giving Holder one month to cough up the remaining F & F docs, lest he face Contempt of Congress charges and withholding of DOJ funding.
Need to find additional sources, but this is very promising! Although I doubt Holder will provide the documents, I think Congress is serious about ‘gutting’ DOJ by withholding funding.
BEAUTIFUL!
This is the thug that we are dealing with.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle
Typical Marxist cowards.
Haven’t you learned yet, Bill ‘o? They want to be called “gutsy.”
One of the comments from the Breitbart/BigGovernment link posted above:
“Didn’t Brutus have Caesars’s back”?
Very good!
Did anyone read the Nicholas Schmidtle story in the “New Yorker Magazine,” after the taking out of OBL? It was supposed to have info that they could have gotten from only the Pentagon or the White House. They identified Naval SEAL Team 6. That’s how it was easier to send them off on a wild-goose chase to get them murdered on a slow helicopter.