Posted on 05/08/2012 5:11:07 AM PDT by MindBender26
Former U.S. Attorney Michael Mukasey told Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity on Friday night that the Navy SEAL mission to kill Osama bin Laden was preceded by “a highly lawyered memo” from CIA Director Leon Panetta — one designed to insulate President Barack Obama if the operation failed.
As Mukasey first suggested in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the Panetta memo appeared calculated to shift any future blame to Naval Special Operations Commander Adm. Bill McRaven.
“The president had a fallback if this didn’t work out,” Hannity said Friday. “He had a ‘CYA’ [Cover Your Ass].”
“There was a memo from Leon Panetta that described the authority that was given to McCraven,” Mukasey explained. “And it was to proceed according to the risks, only according to the risks that had been outlined to the president. And if he encountered anything else, he had to check back. And you better believe that if anything else had been encountered and the mission had failed, then the blame would have fallen on McCraven. That’s what that’s about.”
Asked by Hannity if the memo “was designed to protect the president politically,” Mukasey suggested that “there’s going to be more that comes tumbling out about that escapade. But so far, that memo is enough.”
“One definition of a great leader,” Mukasey added later in the interview, “is somebody who takes less credit than he should and takes more blame than he should. And that’s not what we’ve got now.”
What irresponsible bastards
At some point he was corrupted by the beltway culture. He switched his party affiliation to democrat and his statesman like qualities started to degenerate into the perverse valueless politically motivated personality disorder of party hack.
His big step over line, like a recreational cocaine user trying crack of heroin for the first time, was when he gave up elected office ambitions to become a shill for the Clintons. He was rewarded for his loyalty with a phonied up job or appointment as the co director of a liberal think tank called the Monterey Institute for Public Policy where he has all expenses paid and draws $1,000 a day from the taxpayers of America.
When Obama needed a human shield, the party knew who to call on.
and where is the picture of W on his MOUNTAIN bike tearing down sandy hillsides at full tilt! Now THAT’s a Man’s Man!
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