Obama Administration...Do as I say, not as I do regarding Bin Laden raid

[Dallas Chief]

At 35,000 feet and bored to tears so here is my best direckshunt impersonation. Read it or not, idgaf

If the Obama administration leaked info on this highly classified operation, they should be prosecuted to the full extent, if they broke any laws. I am very upset about this everyone.

The Obama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to publicize details of the raid that killed
Osama bin Laden, even as it threatens to file criminal charges against a former Navy SEAL because
he provided the same type of mission rundown in his recently published book.
An examination by The Washington Times shows that several details in the book "No Easy Day"
already have appeared in print based on interviews with administration officials and likely will be
included in an upcoming movie and another book.
Perhaps the most detailed account of the raid appeared in a 2011 New Yorker article based on
authorized interviews with White House officials. A source close to SEAL Team 6, which carried out
the May 2011 mission, said unit members were told after the article was published that it was based,
in part, on an authorized interview with a mission planner.
Internal administration emails released last month in a Freedom of Information lawsuit show
extraordinary cooperation between filmmakers working on a movie about the bin Laden raid and
Obama political appointees. At least one person who took part in the raid was made available to the
movie's director and screenwriter, the emails show.
A book coming out three weeks before the Nov. 6 election details the bin Laden raid, step by step. It
also is based on cooperation with the White House, according to the source close to SEAL Team 6.
The book's publicity blurb says it will focus on President Obama, who has made the bin Laden killing a
focal point of his re-election campaign.
"No Easy Day" author Matt Bissonnette, a former SEAL who used the pen name Mark Owen, has
been threatened by the Pentagon with criminal charges for his first-person account of the bin Laden
mission.
George Little, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, flatly accused Mr. Bissonnette of
divulging secrets.
Mr. Bissonnette's attorney said in a letter that the book does not contain classified information and
that his client did not violate a nondisclosure agreement that calls for pre-publication review.
What has struck some is the zeal with which the Obama administration is going after Mr. Bissonnette,
even though senior officials have released details on how bin Laden was killed in a hideout in the
Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.
"The Obama administration strategically leaked details of the bin Laden raid for political advantage,"
said Charles Gittins, a criminal defense lawyer who has defended scores of military clients, including
SEALs. "The author of the book is writing about what he personally observed, which really can't be
classified, which I am confident the administration knows, and is the reason they didn't move more
strongly to stop the publication.
"Using strategic leaks for political gain, while complaining that a witness to events wrote about what he
personally saw and did, really is the height of hypocrisy," Mr. Gittins said

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[jjjayb]

Originally Posted by Dallas Chief

here is my best direckshunt impersonation[/url]

You need to start about 10 more threads by cutting and pasting articles from elsewhere in the next few hours if you want to impersonate direckshun.

[Dallas Chief]

Originally Posted by jjjayb

You need to start about 10 more threads by cutting and pasting articles from elsewhere in the next few hours if you want to impersonate direckshun.

I tried... I just don't have it in me. I have a job and some direction in life that occupies most of my mindshare.

[Huffmeister]

Originally Posted by Dallas Chief

I tried... I just don't have it in me. I have a job and some direction in life that occupies most of my mindshare.

No, the correct reply is either "Swing and a miss" or "You're adorable".

[Dallas Chief]

Originally Posted by Huffmeister

No, the correct reply is either "Swing and a miss" or "You're adorable".

I totally FAIL at this and have lost my direckshun.