05-03-2016, 08:27 PM
I understand your points, Donovan.
Personally, I have zero problem believing that the President (as Commander In Chief), VP, Sec of State, and NSA/CIA leaders would be called together to watch the U.S. Special Ops take down of THE terrorist behind al-Qaeda's mass murder of 3,000 people on American soil.
It's not difficult for me to understand why that level of witnessing would be desirable once intelligence confirmed with high certainty that it was in fact the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden, residing in the Pakistani compound -- once the President gave the green light for SEALs to go in and take him out.
It's also not hard for me to understand why the people in the Situation Room would want to be there, as part of a historical event which could certainly serve their political and career aspirations well.
Anyway, I think imploring all those people to lie about watching the hit go down and how it went down would be unnecessarily risky and thus unlikely, for the reasons I posted above.
In my opinion, there's probably more secrecy and room for suspicion surrounding how Bin Laden was located (tip for reward, diligent intel, Pakistani whistle blower...?), and what happened to the terrorist's body after the killing.
Personally, I have zero problem believing that the President (as Commander In Chief), VP, Sec of State, and NSA/CIA leaders would be called together to watch the U.S. Special Ops take down of THE terrorist behind al-Qaeda's mass murder of 3,000 people on American soil.
It's not difficult for me to understand why that level of witnessing would be desirable once intelligence confirmed with high certainty that it was in fact the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden, residing in the Pakistani compound -- once the President gave the green light for SEALs to go in and take him out.
It's also not hard for me to understand why the people in the Situation Room would want to be there, as part of a historical event which could certainly serve their political and career aspirations well.
Anyway, I think imploring all those people to lie about watching the hit go down and how it went down would be unnecessarily risky and thus unlikely, for the reasons I posted above.
In my opinion, there's probably more secrecy and room for suspicion surrounding how Bin Laden was located (tip for reward, diligent intel, Pakistani whistle blower...?), and what happened to the terrorist's body after the killing.