Biden Reveals New Details on bin Laden Kill Operation

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Biden Reveals New Details on bin Laden Kill Operation

Vice President Joe Biden gave a rare inside look Friday at the internal deliberations that led to President Obama's decision last year to dispatch a Navy SEAL team to kill Osama bin Laden.

Watch the vice president's remarks to the House Democratic Issues Conference, in which he candidly explains where the president's advisors stood and how he eventually made his decision.

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/01/27/biden-reveals-new-details-bin-laden-kill-operation?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1khUxvDhF

I can't find it anywhere other then Fox yet (ugh). It also wouldn't show up when I wanted to post it in the video forum but I thought it was very interesting.

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1. CNN has it now

Biden dishes on bin Laden decision

By Adam Levine

The mission to get Osama bin Laden seems to be the raid that keeps on giving for the Obama White House. Whether it is a mention at the top and bottom of the State of the Union address or a highlight in a campaign speech, the president frequently references to the mission as evidence of the his leadership and foreign policy strength.

Vice President Joe Biden jumped on the Obama leadership bandwagon Friday when he revealed that he cautioned the president against signing off on the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideaway. Despite his reservations, Biden said the President made the gutsy decision all alone.

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Obama’s Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan told reporters last May how the inner circle "debated across the board," so the President could ensure "at the end that he had the views of all the principals."
"He goes around the room and he wants to hear people’s views. And so you have a circumstantial intelligence case. And so people will see that either there is insufficient circumstantial evidence to go forward with something like this, which involves a unilateral operation in another country to go after somebody you believe is Osama bin Laden - and there were differences of views that were discussed. That’s what the President wanted to know," said Brennan.

The Vice President isn’t the only who had second thoughts about pulling the trigger. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also admitted he had reservations about the raid.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/27/biden-dishes-on-bin-laden-decision/

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2. sounds like Obama is a fan of the Captain Picard school of leadership

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3. When can we hear about the raid that killed the 16 year American boy?

Or is that still a secret?