Architect of bin Laden raid: Trump 'threatens the Constitution' when he attacks the media

CNN Politics ^ | Mon November 19, 2018 | Jake Tapper

[A_Former_Democrat]

Uh, no, dumbass . . . VOTER FRAUD is the BIGGEST THREAT

Followed closely by A LEFT WING “media”

So GFY on your fat government pension

[Jolla]

Retired Adm. William McRaven

yea, I am sure the Admiral back when he was a j.g. took a lot of gruff from squids bitching and treated them very nice.

[DesertRhino]

This guy got thrown out of Seal Team 6 by dick marcinko for being such a tool, and wanting the Navy book followed to the letter. He runs around claiming to be a seal when he’s nothing but another commissioned officer on auto suck.

[goldstategop]

Fake news CNN droning on about alleged Trump insults to military heroes since the 2016 campaign.

Yawn

[Innovative]

Trump said this guy is a Hillary supporter.

[RatRipper]

I disagree. A dishonest media supports despots like Stalin and Hitler. The Constitution is DEFINITELY NOT SERVED by a media that routinely misrepresents facts and colludes to advance a false narrative

[Skywise]

You’d think an ex-navy seal - supposedly an expert in tactics and strategy (and who I note was kicked out of seal team six) would understand the difference between silencing and censoring the press (which Obama did and whom this twit fully supports) and using the first amendment to REBUTE the press, which Trump does.

[No Socialist]

So is this guy a constitutional scholar, or has his 15 minutes of fame expired and he needs the media talking about him again?

[pepsi_junkie]

Does the Admiral threaten the constitution when he criticizes the President? What’s the difference from him exercising his freedom of speech versus the President exercising his own?

[New Jersey Realist]

Obama was a lot worse. Not only did he criticize the fair and balanced press, but he also put honest journalists under surveillance. What he did to Rosen was a crime. Now that’s threatening the Constitution.

[New Jersey Realist]

Obama was a lot worse. Not only did he criticize the fair and balanced press, but he also put honest journalists under surveillance. What he did to Rosen was a crime. Now that’s threatening the Constitution. What the deep state and the media are doing to Trump threatens the Constitution.

[MNJohnnie]

Another politician in a uniform. Must be angling for the Sec of Defense job in the next Dem administration.

"After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, McRaven was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and volunteered for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) graduating with Class 95 in 1978. As a Navy SEAL officer, McRaven was deployed to the Philippines.[10] In 1982, as a junior officer McRaven was assigned to SEAL Team Six under the command of CDR Richard Marcinko but was pushed out in 1983 due to McRaven's concerns about a culture of recklessness, military discipline, and difficulties in keeping his sailors in line

In other words, he likes bureaucrats in uniforms, not warriors.

[MNJohnnie]

There are 2 different sorts of operators. There are warriors and then their are the military bureaucrats angling for the next promotion. Look at this bio he went Seals as a way to get a ticket punched on the way to his flag. He has the mindset, and soul, of a bureaucrat

[Lent]

CNN is made up of a bunch of partisan hacks for the Democrats. They’re not the “press”. They are a propaganda vehicle for a party and deserve every bit of derision they can possibly get.

[piasa]

The “not very deep thinkers” you refer to frequently have degrees in things like nuclear engineering.

That said there are some not as bright as others.

The purpose of a AL raid is to capture the target, not to blow him away, and to get in and out without anyone knowing or finding helicopter parts strewn about, so McRaven’s raid apparently didn’t go as planned.

[airdalechief]

I’ve read every book Marcinko wrote.

Love that ‘ol SOB

[rx]

Admiral McRaven, USN Retred, earned his chit in the big game when as the commander of Special Operations of Command, he allowed the $2B USS LaJolla submarine, its attached SEAL delivery vehicle and personnel to be used in a contrived hoax on the American electorate.

Right out of textbooks describing military activities in a banana republic, McRaven allowed US Naval assets (assigned to the CIA, coincidentally) to be used for partisan political purposes, in this case to afford Loretta Fuddy, a decades-long intelligence asset, to make her exit to Valhalla (alive).

In her last big play, Fuddy had earned her exit by procuring for the life-long-CIA-construct, one Barack Obama, a false birth certificate to make it appear that he was eligible for the presidency and that the Democratic Party was not complicit in the Fraud of the Century. Barry Soetoro was ineligible to be president, but the Intel Community had nonetheless cleared for him a path to the presidency, helping him at every critical juncture.

[DoughtyOne]

McRaven evidently doesn’t know that a silent attempt at a coup has been taking place in the United States.

The guy jumped the shark with this nonsense.

[piasa]

1983 was an interesting year.

MAY 1983 : (KENNEDY COLLUDES WITH THE RUSSIANS AGAINST REAGAN CAMPAIGN — See NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT) “On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”
Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.
First he offered to visit Moscow. “The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.” Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.
Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. “A direct appeal … to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. … If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. … The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.”
Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time–and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.
You can read the full KGB memo detailing Kennedy’s secret letter and request for electoral intervention here:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-kennedy-offer-to-ussr
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
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1983 : (OBAMA PAPER -—See NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT)
“In 1983, at the height of the cold war, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, wrote in a campus newsmagazine about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” The article in the Sundial profiled two campus groups: Arms Race Alternatives and Students Against Militarism.”
http://documents.nytimes.com/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article#p=1

1983 : (UN : SEE RUSSIAN DOWNING OF KAL 007) In 1983 Reagan’s UN ambassidor Jeanne Kirkpatrick played audio tapes in the UN security council proving that the Russian interceptor had intentionally shot down a civilian 747 (carrying US passengers including a US congressman)

1983 : (NK TERRORISM : BURMA : NORKS ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE S KOREAN PRES, KILL 21 PEOPLE)

[Right Wing Assault]

Yeah, he's interfering with their leftist-Constitution-hater rights to lie and make things up.