Note:This update comes some 24 hours after our longtime Washington D.C. Insider first outlined shocking details of an Obama administration having been "overruled" by senior military and intelligence officials leading up to the successful attack against terrorist Osama Bin Laden. What follows is further clarification of Insider's insights surrounding that event.
Q: 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?
A: 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.
I was correct in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper. The primary opposition to this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was enough to create uncertainty within President Obama. Obama would meet with various components of the pro-invasion faction, almost always with Jarrett present, and then often fail to indicate his position. This situation continued for some time, though the division between Jarrett/Obama and the rest intensified more recently, most notably from Hillary Clinton. She was livid over the president's failure to act, and her office began a campaign of anonymous leaks to the media indicating such. As for Jarrett, her concern rested on two primary fronts. One, that the military action could fail and harm the president's already weakened standing with both the American public and the world. Second, that the attack would be viewed as an act of aggression against Muslims, and further destabilize conditions in the Middle East .
nmysys....once again a copy paste without comment. You love to post this stuff and see what happens. How about you give us YOUR take on this rumor before the thread heads off into another direction. Will you put yourself on record as to your judgement on it's veracity?
If I didn't copy and paste what I find each day, you Liberals would have nothing to complain about. I have watched the boards when I don't post and there is very little going on.
Within five minutes of getting the link to this posting, I received 9 more copies of the same thing from others I correspond with.
Since you are waiting for me to comment on it, I will wait awhile just to make you stew awhile Archer. I will post my feelings about it after I get the responses from all you America Hating Progressives first.
"Overruled" and "acted without authorization" are two different things. One is illegal and treasonous and the other gives Obama that arm's reach in case things go sour. Sounds to me like that's what he was looking for - plausible deniability.
