The Path To bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Start With Obama [Credit Bush and Black Sites]

Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2012 | Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.

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The Path To bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Start With Obama Text Size PrintE-mailReprints By Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., April 30

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is a 31-year veteran of the CIA and the author of “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.”

As we mark the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama deserves credit for making the right choice on taking out Public Enemy No. 1.

But his administration never would have had the opportunity to do the right thing had it not been for some extraordinary work during the George W. Bush administration. Much of that work has been denigrated by Obama as unproductive and contrary to American principles.

He is wrong on both counts.

Shortly after bin Laden met his maker last spring, courtesy of U.S. Special Forces and intelligence, the administration proudly announced that when Obama took office, getting bin Laden was made a top priority. Many of us who served in senior counterterrorism positions in the Bush administration were left muttering: “Gee, why didn’t we think of that?”

The truth is that getting bin Laden was the top counterterrorism objective for U.S. intelligence since well before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. This administration built on work pain­stakingly pursued for many years before Obama was elected — and without this work, Obama administration officials never would have been in a position to authorize the strike on Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in bin Laden’s overdue death.

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Great link. Thanks...

[ohioWfan]

God bless Pres. Bush! Folks aren’t fooled by the pretender. And God bless and protect Jose Rodriguez .. the pretender doesn’t like critics.

Amen.

God bless Seal Team6. Some are with Him.

Amen and AMEN to you both!

Only the hardcore leftists swallow the incessant lies of the Marxist pretender, and 'forget' how much he opposed everything that the Bush administration did to get the job done.

God is not mocked. Obama will pay for his deceit. If not on earth by laws, in eternity by the Very One he continues to sin against with his vindictive, mocking, arrogant spirit.