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Panetta: Obama Couldn't Watch Bin Laden's Death but Heard 'Geronimo' Signal(video)
PBS ^ | May 3, 2011

Posted on 05/03/2011 5:33:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

In a newsmaker interview with Jim Lehrer on Tuesday, CIA Director Leon Panetta describes the final tense seconds of the commando raid on the compound housing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: obama; osama; panetta
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To: RummyChick
penetta is not saying the pres couldn't watch it. He's saying they didn't see it. What a disingenuous title
21 posted on 05/03/2011 5:49:57 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: TexasNative2000

This is supposed to be a Commander in Chief?! What is the deal with this Valerie Jarrett character anyway? Anybody know.


22 posted on 05/03/2011 5:50:26 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

All this noise is beginning to sound like a commando raid on public opinion. Which Alinsky tactic would this be?


23 posted on 05/03/2011 5:51:29 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I'm thinkin' Michelle enjoyed it a little, though . . .

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24 posted on 05/03/2011 5:51:29 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait a minute. According to that group photo the WH released, Obama and his aides were watching events live as they unfolded. So how did Obama know the moment to avert his eyes, if that’s what happened? Or did he leave the room after that photo was shot? Or what?


25 posted on 05/03/2011 5:53:01 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

When they first showed that war room photo it was evident to me something wasn’t kosher. Seating arrangements do matter, it’s a power thing and often times will be seen in high end meetings..Hillary is flanked...while Obama is off by himself almost as an afterthought....and still wearing causual clothes...so what was with that?


26 posted on 05/03/2011 5:53:28 PM PDT by caww
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To: Caipirabob
How many different stories will the White House release on this?

The truth is eternally fungible for this group, and the media will never call them on it.

27 posted on 05/03/2011 5:55:22 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The fact that Pinheada says he could not watch means
there is headcam video of his death. Will it ever be released?


28 posted on 05/03/2011 5:57:51 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: stevecmd
Good thing he doesn’t have to see a pregnancy terminated.
Yep, and at a clip of over 3,000/day.
29 posted on 05/03/2011 5:58:19 PM PDT by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: Wolfstar

I don’t believe Panetta, he’s covering up something as they all are...and I’m not a theroist either. But all these changes and I expect more to come...somebody is covering something or avoiding something. Getting tired of the nonesense I tell ya! This is not something they want to be lying about. It just sounds like they are building a story as they go somehow different than the actual...and I’m not so certain it has to do with Ben Laden.


30 posted on 05/03/2011 5:59:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good grief..everyday the story changes. This is ridiculous.


31 posted on 05/03/2011 5:59:55 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: caww
I noticed the seating as well. Obie was detached. I think he had to be coerced to make “the call”. Panetta, Daley or Gates, maybe all.
32 posted on 05/03/2011 6:05:43 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: tennmountainman
Of course the MSM is excusing all the shifting stories as the "fog of war". Were this Bush they would be complaining that the Bush administration couldn't get their stories straight.

Brian Williams looked sick when LP told him, yes waterboarding was used on KSM and YES IT WORKED.

33 posted on 05/03/2011 6:10:33 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
In a close up of the "War Room" shot, Obie almost looked sad.

I thought he looked scared.

34 posted on 05/03/2011 6:15:25 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Couldn’t get in from his golf game in time?


35 posted on 05/03/2011 6:16:07 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I'm certain there was live, high quality video and audio.

That's what those geosynchronous NRO satellites with the 350' antennas do so well. Only takes the weak signal from a very small helmet cam to get a good uplink to a dish that size.


36 posted on 05/03/2011 6:19:58 PM PDT by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

There’s just something going on there among them that isn’t right. A president should always be pretty much front and center...in this case at least close to those he depends on...like Gates. But I am very uncomfortable with how Hillary is flanked....even though I detest Obama this photo is very revealing that things are not right among them there.

I learned about seating having been in such situations and having it pointed out to me at an important time for elections within a powerful group. It proved absolutely right as I watched people take their seats....and from then on I took note at various meetings....was very revealing indeed.


37 posted on 05/03/2011 6:20:24 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

I’ve worked for a military organization for over 21 years. This was a Military Operation and IMO the CIC should have been at the head of the table flanked by the OIC of the operation.


38 posted on 05/03/2011 6:23:48 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: caww

Obama did not seem to be actively involved to the extent that the rest of those at the table were. They all had laptops running and HC had papers laid out. O was sorta crunched in the corner


39 posted on 05/03/2011 6:24:41 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whatever is going on, I sure hope the SEALS do not get thrown under the bus for shooting an unarmed man. It sure seems the “group at the table” went from active participants to “geez we couldn’t see a thing”.


40 posted on 05/03/2011 6:25:00 PM PDT by texteacher
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