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Official: Obama Admin Drafted Memo to Blame Military If Bin Laden Mission Failed
Fox News Nation ^ | May 07, 2012

Posted on 05/07/2012 8:53:26 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity tonight that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

“That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)… I think there’s going to be more that’s going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough.“

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: frontpage; obama; scapegoat
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..Mere Words fail me...
1 posted on 05/07/2012 8:53:33 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

Drafting an excuse memo ... what a Gutsy Call!!!


2 posted on 05/07/2012 8:55:38 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)
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To: US Navy Vet

unexpectedly?


3 posted on 05/07/2012 8:55:55 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1204 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: US Navy Vet

“..Mere Words fail me... “

Nah. It’s just that the polite words are failing you.


4 posted on 05/07/2012 8:55:55 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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..Mere Words fail me...

Me too. I thought for sure he would have blamed Bush.

5 posted on 05/07/2012 8:56:19 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I heard Osama was unarmed and carrying a bag of "Skillets candy" when Obama shot him.)
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To: US Navy Vet

At what point will the military’s sense of self-preservation kick in?


6 posted on 05/07/2012 8:57:14 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1204 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: US Navy Vet

It’s like dealing with a retarded child.

If you make a grab for a target, and you miss; you re-group and act as if the entire exercise was a part of a larger plan. You neither acknowledge nor disavow the attempt. If you say nothing, then it was nothing but merely an exercise.

I guess this concept is to sophisticaled for someone as “billiant” as Obama.


7 posted on 05/07/2012 8:57:36 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: US Navy Vet

This is what a coward piece of shit does.


8 posted on 05/07/2012 8:57:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: US Navy Vet

Forget being a terrible president, Barack Obama is a disgusting, weasely human being.


9 posted on 05/07/2012 8:57:47 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Jeff Chandler

LOL! Yep, no doubt.


10 posted on 05/07/2012 8:57:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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..this guy won’t take responsibility for anything....he’ll steal credit, but gets real stooopid when things go wrong.


11 posted on 05/07/2012 8:58:19 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: US Navy Vet

The “don’t blame me” presidency!


12 posted on 05/07/2012 8:58:31 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: US Navy Vet

As loathsome as Jimmy carter was, at least he stood up and took responsibility for the aborted attempt to free the hostages.

I’d love to see this memo.


13 posted on 05/07/2012 8:58:31 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: US Navy Vet

At least Jimmy Carter took responsibility for the failed hostage rescue mission.


14 posted on 05/07/2012 8:59:02 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Don't mistake my vote for Romney as a vote FOR Romney, it's a vote against Obama.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Wasn’t this the guy that said The Buck Stops Here. The only way a buck stops with him is if you let him put it into his pocket.


15 posted on 05/07/2012 8:59:26 AM PDT by bramps
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..this guy won’t take responsibility for anything....he’ll steal credit, but gets real stooopid when things go wrong.


16 posted on 05/07/2012 8:59:26 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Nachum

Another one for the list!


17 posted on 05/07/2012 9:02:03 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: US Navy Vet

What a disgusting puke. Argh!!!


18 posted on 05/07/2012 9:02:14 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: US Navy Vet

So that’s why the Chicken-in-Chief was so shrunken down in his chair that he looked photo-shopped in that Situation Room picture of the attack. He was concentrating on the Blame-the-General note to the NYT that he undoubtedly had at the ready in his desk drawer.


19 posted on 05/07/2012 9:03:48 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Here’s part of the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqaaokIUqD8


20 posted on 05/07/2012 9:04:04 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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