Well, it appears that all is not as it seems. After confirming yesterday that the ‘enhanced interrogation’ used to gained intel leading to the whereabouts and killing of OBL did included waterboarding, which was quickly downplayed by the administration, UK’s Telegraph now reports that CIA Director Leon Panetta “revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off. A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.”
As an aside, Panetta also reveals in this article that it was the Navy Seals that made the final decision to kill bin Laden rather than Obama!
What irony that the ‘real’ picture they won’t allow us to see is too ‘gruesome’ and might ‘incite’ terrorists (as if killing bin Laden didn’t already do that?), when the one they are showing us is a contrived staging to prop up the perceived strength of this administration.
Well, it’ll be a nice one to put on the re-election reel, perhaps right beside the one of the dead terrorist leader at a more politically opportune time.
