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Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph
ABC News ^ | 05/04/2011 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 05/04/2011 4:52:07 AM PDT by Smokeyblue

President Obama is increasingly doubtful that there's a compelling reason to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse, ABC News has learned.

There don't seem to be many skeptics of bin Laden's death in the Muslim world, with bin Laden's wife having survived the attack to identify bin Laden's death both to the Navy SEALs and Pakistani authorities.

Meanwhile, sources say, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are advising the president about concerns at the Pentagon and State Department that releasing a photograph could prompt a backlash against the US for killing bin Laden where one does not seem to currently exist.

The internal debate at the White House is then informed by this question: why are we releasing this photograph if no one seems to really doubt his death and releasing it could cause more harm than good?


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; gates; obama; osamabinladen
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To: Smokeyblue
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41 posted on 05/04/2011 5:40:19 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: Smokeyblue

More international advertising that ‘America is under the control of a cluster of half-wits’!!! And, since they were duly elected by Americans, THEY are half-wits.


42 posted on 05/04/2011 5:40:54 AM PDT by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: arrdon

No picture no Osama.


43 posted on 05/04/2011 5:42:29 AM PDT by angcat (DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
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To: Smokeyblue

Why couldn’t they have decided this BEFORE they stormed the compound? This constant indecision on the part of Obama is hard to take. I would prefer to see them, especially after Paneyya said they will probably come out, and Rush even had a time (near 2pm yesterday). Tese people in DC are maddening.


44 posted on 05/04/2011 5:45:03 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: Smokeyblue

They wouldn’t release it if it didn’t look so much like OBL as they first thought... Ooops.


45 posted on 05/04/2011 5:45:15 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: Smokeyblue
The internal debate at the White House is then informed by this question: why are we releasing this photograph if no one seems to really doubt his death and releasing it could cause more harm than good?

So, they had this exact discussion before releasing the pictures of Abu Ghraib that caused riots over the world, right?

and releasing it could cause more harm than good to Obama political campaign?

46 posted on 05/04/2011 5:47:24 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: mwl8787

There is an article that says the time inside the building was 20-25 minutes, so I don’t know what the 40 minutes was, unless it included time inside the compound walls, but not yet in the house itself.


47 posted on 05/04/2011 5:49:02 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: Smokeyblue
Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph

That's because there are no Bin Laden shot in the head death photos. At least not yet. Bin Laden died of kidney failure in Tora Bora way back in December 2001. This is a well known fact within the various Western governments and intelligence agencies. Madeline Albright, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf and other high level government officials have for years publicly claimed that Bin Laden was dead and would be rolled out in a political expedient publicity stunt. This Hollywood style raid is just such stunt to give Barry Soetoro, AKA Barrack Hussein Obama, some credibility what with the 'shopped Birth Certificate fiasco and the controlled demolition of the economy. This is also designed to pump up waning support amongst the rubes for more of the liberty stripping, treasury draining, phony 'War on Terra' and an expanded hot war with Pakistan.

There is no leadership from the US government, only publicity stunts and propaganda. They have to trick us because what thinking American would consciously follow these people.

48 posted on 05/04/2011 5:54:16 AM PDT by Roninf5-1 (If ignorance is bliss why are so many Americans on anti-depressants?)
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To: PghBaldy

Oh, and they should release the DNA evidence, along with that of the dead half-sister/sister. They are idiots The most wanted mean in the world is killed, and the body is mysteriously dumped in the dark of night, and they offer NO PROOF? Do they not realize the amount of trouble they are making? Who in the Muslim world will believe them? They have created a ghost.


49 posted on 05/04/2011 5:57:41 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: muawiyah
You're just trying to protect them.

No, I'm not. I'm saying what happens to them is irrelevant to the fate of America.

It's the same with AlQaida and its affiliates ~ they are vulnerable TO DEATH!

Go ahead an kill every Jihadi on planet earth. It won't make a different to the fate of the US.

I guess you're a true believer that destroying AlQaeda will somehow slow or stop the decline of America.

If we had sensible immigration and faced the fact that multiculturalism doesn't work and started deportations, then I'd say America had a chance. As it is, no one has the balls for that. America is doomed.

50 posted on 05/04/2011 5:57:47 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (We would all be better off if the federal government just decided to end itself.)
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To: central_va

Call me when the South rises again, ok?


51 posted on 05/04/2011 5:59:15 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (We would all be better off if the federal government just decided to end itself.)
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To: Smokeyblue

Transparency, eh?


52 posted on 05/04/2011 6:00:46 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: MichiganConservative
Sensible migration would have definitely kicked in by 1828 ~ we'd been sinking boatloads of starving immigrants just offshore.

Now, what were you saying?

53 posted on 05/04/2011 6:02:01 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MichiganConservative
Call me when the South rises again, ok?

Right to work states:

Does this embarrass you at all?

54 posted on 05/04/2011 6:02:47 AM PDT by central_va
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To: muawiyah

Ok, you obviously aren’t at all interested in anything buy your kill fantasies. Disillusionment will probably be rough for you.


55 posted on 05/04/2011 6:06:25 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (We would all be better off if the federal government just decided to end itself.)
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To: central_va

Let me know when the secessions start. That’s about the only thing that can save the American idea.

Dude, MI is full of transplanted southern boys that moved to Detroit and Flint to work in the Auto industry and got unionized.

By the way, the South was right in the US Civil War.


56 posted on 05/04/2011 6:08:08 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (We would all be better off if the federal government just decided to end itself.)
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To: central_va

Good one! ;)


57 posted on 05/04/2011 6:08:52 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Smokeyblue

Seems like post-kill decisions like the releasing of photos and any other information would have been nailed down before the raid. The public disagreeing by Obama’s inner circle does not look good.

We shouldn’t release photos yet. You don’t want to release gory stuff like that until there’s an extremely good reason. Give our enemies and skeptial friends more time to figure out what happened using other evidence.

My conspiracy theory is that when Bin Ladin’s body was thrown off that boat, divers got the body as it went down and we still have it.

I agree with other posters that Obama worries too much about offending the bad guys.


58 posted on 05/04/2011 6:09:24 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: MichiganConservative

The Confederacy was an anti-American conspiracy.


59 posted on 05/04/2011 6:09:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MichiganConservative
Let me know when the secessions start.

Why is then that all the transplants that come down here are such flaming libs? Why do the Yankee good 'ole boys stay put? WHY IS THAT?

60 posted on 05/04/2011 6:10:58 AM PDT by central_va
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