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From the headline, I thought it was a Navy SEAL. Ah, former navy Seal.
Awesome. That's why I love democracy and freedom.
I have respect for SEALs, but I have no respect for political hacks like this guy. He needs to shut the heck up, because he is making the entire SEAL and special ops community look like a bunch attention sick crybabies, and they don't deserve that.
Peter Bergen author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden --- From 9/11 to Abbattabad" blows apart "Dishonorable Disclosures." Absolutely destroys it point by point!
Point one: Obama disclosed raid before intelligence could be vetted.
Where did the Pakistanis think that helicopter laying about the compound come from, Mars?
As Bergen points out;
Pakistani journalists started arriving at bin Laden's Abbottabad compound soon after the helicopter crashed and started filing stories about the mysterious helicopter and its oddly shaped tail rotor. An Abbottabad resident even tweeted about the unusual sound of helicopters flying over the city in the middle of the night.
Point two: Obama disclosed the identity of SEAL Team Six.
You have to have been living in a cave to not know about Delta Force much less SEAL Team Six considering all the movies, T.V shows and books written about the two. Only the world's most dense intelligence service couldn't figure out that it had to be one of the two.
Bergen's comment about this:
It quickly leaked that SEAL Team Six had executed the raid, but this was hardly surprising as the SEALs are the principal Special Operations Forces in the Afghanistan/Pakistan theater, something that has been discussed in multiple news stories over the past several years and in bestselling books such as "Lone Survivor" by former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.
And the SEALs have hardly kept a low profile of late, cooperating in a movie "Act of Valor" that was released in theaters this year, which actually featured real SEALs playing the parts of the heroes of the movie.
And just when you thought the "documentary" couldn't get any loopier;
The film "Dishonorable Disclosures" gets even sillier. At one point one of the former officers interviewed for the film charges that the Obama administration "divulged to the world we are using drone technology." The fact that the United States uses drones in Pakistan is one of the world's worst kept secrets. In fact, the New America Foundation where I work has maintained a public database of these attacks since early 2010.
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