'Gutsy Call' Not So Gutsy After All, New Book Reveals (Bin Laden Kill)

Arutz Sheva ^ | 30 July 2012 | Rachel Hirshfeld

[Erik Latranyi]

At the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to a new book scheduled for release August 21, The Daily Caller (DC) reported.

In “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him,” Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, reportedly persuaded Obama to hold off each time, the book reveals, according to The DC.

Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.

Obama administration officials said after the raid that the president had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his fourth moment of indecision.

At the time, the White House blamed the delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. However, when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.

“President Obama’s greatest success was actually his greatest failure,” Miniter told The DC. “Leading From Behind,” he said, traces six key decisions of the Obama administration, and shows how the president made them, or, in many cases, failed to make them.

The president has made the assassination of Osama bin Laden a focal point in his re-election campaign, calling it one of the "gutsiest calls of any president in recent history."

[Erik Latranyi]

There were rumors of this at the time........

[txrefugee]

That’s why BO looked like a little whipped dog in the picture taken in the War Room during the attack. He already had his cover story ready, blaming the gung-ho military if the mission failed.

That’s what “leading from behind” looks like.

[skeeter]

Its interesting that Obama’s Iranian born senior advisor was so interested in keeping the murderer of 3000 American civilians out of harm’s way.

[Don Corleone]

At the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama ..................fill in the blanks....

He spends most of his time either campaigning, golfing or asleep in the family quarters upstairs. He is to be awakened only at meal times. She is the most dangerous woman in America today.

[newheart]

I'm not a real general, but Valerie lets me play one on TV.

[novemberslady]

I don't believe that bin laden was shot and buried in the sea.
I believe that the whole story is a lie.

[Verginius Rufus]

Ed Klein, author of The Amateur, was interviewed on C-SPAN this weekend. According to what he learned, both Bill Daley and Rahm Emanuel were forced out of the White House because they clashed with Valerie Jarrett. Because of her domination of Obama, she is the most powerful person in America, and most of the public doesn't even know who she is.

Daley's offense was bringing in Archbishop Dolan to argue against forcing the mandate for birth control and sterilization on the Catholic Church.

[SampleMan]

I wonder if the real story is that word failed to reach Osama in time to save him.

[Vigilanteman]

I'm interested in knowing whether Valerie Jarrett was even around the white hut in the hours leading up to the May 2 raid. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Hillary or Leon Panetta or Susan Rice had assigned to TDY at the time.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Obama’s Rasputin...

[Mr. K]

That’s a very good way of putting it!

[TomGuy]

There were rumors of this at the time........

Yep.

Hillary C was one of the leaders of the opposition in the WH who helped make the actual attack happen. She has more b*lls than Ears has.

Of course, after the raid turned out to be successful, Obama stepped up to take all the credit for it.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I wonder if the real story is that word failed to reach Osama in time to save him.

Probably, hence the payback with the shoot-down of Extortion 17.

[pietraynor]

I have said the same thing since the first time I heard this story. Prove that the POS is dead. I doubt very much the story that he was given a proper burial. As to who ever or what ever was thrown over the side, I do believe that at least 1 true American out of 5000 on the aircraft carrier placed some of his or her breakfast meat in the sheet that wrap Obama (I mean osama)

[Ragnar54]

I don't believe that bin laden was shot and buried in the sea. I believe that the whole story is a lie.

Oh yeah? Just ask Seal Team 6!... oh wait

[ArtDodger]

What if:
Bin Ladin was killed in an early strike during the Bush administration. He was declared alive to keep the war machine cranking. Obama was saving the ‘kill’ for a rainy day, such as when the phony Birth Cert was about to be called out in a presser. Had to bury bin Ladin at sea because the effects of deep freezing was visable. Seal team needed to disappear after they were used. Is this possible in the real world?

[Poison Pill]

That’s why BO looked like a little whipped dog in the picture taken in the War Room during the attack

I've always wondered why that was. Guess now we know. Also, he is sitting way off to one side in that pic. Marginalized.

[engrpat]

IIRC, wasn’t there a story right after the raid that said Panetta threatened to tell the press if Obama didn’t ok the raid. I think I read it here. If so, then it would make this story even more believable.