"nevermore shall ye smelly proles know what your Government, Inc. does in thy name." - McRaven

How many people have died because of that stupidity?

Here's something from 2004 on the then-ongoing hunt for bin Laden.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2004/03/14/the-hunt-heats-up.html

NEWSWEEK has learned that McRaven is heading up Task Force 121, a covert, miniature strike force with a command structure so secretive that McRaven's role hasn't even been reported until now.

Task Force 121, which also helped to capture Saddam Hussein under McRaven's command, represents something brand-new in warfare, a pure hybrid of civilian intelligence and military striking power. It is the most ambitious melding yet of CIA assets, Special Forces (mainly the Army's Delta Force) and the Air Force. Formed late last year as part of Joint Special Operations Command--the secret "black ops" under Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who until recently was deputy operations director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--it is designed to produce a lightning-fast reaction should intel locate bin Laden or any other "high-value targets" anywhere for a few hours. It's a work in progress: CIA Director George Tenet meets frequently with Gen. John Abizaid, the head of Central Command, to nurture the marriage.

McRaven has managed to bridge both the civilian and military worlds. While working at the National Security Council after 9/11, he was principal author of the White House strategy for combating terrorism. McRaven also literally wrote the book on Special Ops, a 1995 history of surgical strike teams from the Nazi rescue of Mussolini in 1943 to the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe. And his thesis at naval postgrad school is now mandatory reading for Special Ops commanders. "Bill is reputed to be the smartest SEAL that ever lived," says a former commander who knows McRaven well. "He is physically tough, compassionate and can drive a knife through your ribs in a nanosecond." According to his former boss at the White House, Gen. Wayne Downing, "if anybody is smart and cunning enough to get [bin Laden], McRaven and the Delta and SEAL Team Six guys he now commands will do it."

Fail.

I guess they don't want us to find out it was another Jessica Lynch story.

Just going back to clean up our sh*t.

You think bin Laden wasn't killed that night?

What are your sources--from your friends in the Assad regime?

Have the guts to spell out what you think the hoax is.

Is this article lying?

Are you saying the military doesn't lie?

Why hide the evidence if the story is already known?

Now go apply generous amounts.

Perhaps the reasoning for this is too complex for you to grasp.

Regardless of what Arctic Dave believes happened that night in Abbotabad, this is odd.

Pentagon is incredibly leaky.

Given the joint ownership of the raid, there's probably some degree of fuzziness over proper procedures.

how many thousands have access.?

How many thousands of 'workers' vetted by scam companies like the one who gave security clearances to Snowden?

bin Laden is still alive and kicking in CIA's torture rooms.

Some have said lots of things.

The short version: Back in the day when George W was defendin' Texas from the Air Force of North Vietnam, he met a man by the name of James R Bath. They both were drummed off the flight line for failing to take physical exams -- coincidently, no doubt, right about the same time the government starting testing pilots for illegal drugs 'n' such. Note how the Bush White House redacted a proper noun here and there. Here're two versions of the document:



Now this document shows that the House of bin Laden selected James R Bath to be their official U.S. business agent.



Isn't it something? Why no one in the press corpse ask Bush about this is understandable considering the subject must be off-limits to those without the necessary Top Secret clearance.