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Awful. Obama Officials Drafted Memo to Blame Military If OBL Mission Failed (Video)

Obama's fallback was to blame military.
by Jim Hoft
05/05/2012
 

Leadership: Obama Administration Drafted Memo to Blame Military if OBL Mission Failed

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity on Friday that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

"That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)... I think there's going to be more that's going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough."

And, of course, this surprises no one who is familiar with Obama's leadership style.

 

Mukasey also contrasted Obama's leadership style tonight to Lincoln and Eisenhower as he did in his WSJ Opinion piece earlier in the week.

Lincoln took responsibility in August 1862 for failures that had been attributed to General George McClellan—eventually sacked for incompetence—and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Lincoln told a crowd that McClellan was not at fault for seeking more than Stanton could give, and "I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged upon the Secretary of War."
Dwight Eisenhower is famous for having penned a statement to be issued in anticipation of the failure of the Normandy invasion that reads in relevant part: "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
A week later, when the success of the invasion was apparent, Eisenhower saluted the Allied Expeditionary Forces: "One week ago this morning there was established through your coordinated efforts our first foothold in northwestern Europe. High as was my preinvasion confidence in your courage, skill and effectiveness . . . your accomplishments . . . have exceeded my brightest hopes.
Eisenhower did mention himself at the end: "I truly congratulate you upon a brilliantly successful beginning. . . . Liberty loving people everywhere would today like to join me in saying to you, 'I am proud of you.'"
Jim Hoft is the proprietor of Gateway Pundit Blog from the heart of America-- St. Louis, Missouri.
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Awful. Obama Officials Drafted Memo to Blame Military If OBL Mission Failed (Video)

Obama's fallback was to blame military.
by Jim Hoft
05/05/2012
 

Leadership: Obama Administration Drafted Memo to Blame Military if OBL Mission Failed

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity on Friday that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

 

Bush's Attorney General told Sean Hannity this?  You are really really optimistic if you think I'll beleive this.

I would hope everybody would question this.

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Well, you better question Leon Panetta then.  It was his memo that disclosed this.  Here ya go:

"A recently disclosed memorandum from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta shows that
the president's celebrated derring-do in authorizing the operation included a
responsibility-escape clause: "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."

Which is to say, if the mission went wrong, the fault would be Adm.
McRaven's, not the president's. Moreover, the president does not seem to have
addressed at all the possibility of seizing material with intelligence
value—which may explain his disclosure immediately following the event not only
that bin Laden was killed, but also that a valuable trove of intelligence had
been seized, including even the location of al Qaeda safe-houses. That
disclosure infuriated the intelligence community because it squandered the
opportunity to exploit the intelligence that was the subject of the boast.

 

The only reliable weapon that any administration has against the current
threat to this country is intelligence. Every operation like the one against bin
Laden (or the one that ended the career of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. citizen and
al Qaeda propagandist killed in a drone attack last September) dips into the
reservoir of available intelligence. Refilling that reservoir apparently is of
no importance to an administration that, after an order signed by the president
on his second day in office, has no classified interrogation program—and whose
priorities are apparent from its swift decision to reopen investigations of CIA
operators for alleged abuses in connection with the classified interrogation
program that once did exist.

While contemplating how the killing of bin Laden reflects on the president,
consider the way he emphasized his own role in the hazardous mission
accomplished by SEAL Team 6:

"I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or
capture of bin Laden the top priority . . . even as I continued our broader
effort. . . . Then, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community
I was briefed . . . I met repeatedly with my national security team . . . And
finally last week I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action. .
. . Today, at my direction . . ."

That seems a jarring formulation coming from a man who, when first elected,
was asked which president he would model himself on and replied, Lincoln.

 

Yep, he's a real scum bag alright.

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By the way, Mr. Mukasey served as U.S. attorney general from 2007-09, and as a U.S.
district judge from 1988 to 2006.  I'll take his word before any of the lying bastards currently occupying the executive branch.  And without a doubt before I take yours for that matter.

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