White Home Insider: Obama Hesitated - Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
"What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, didn't know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him -and solely him, involving a covert on the ground assault in opposition to the compound."
Notice:This update comes some 24 hours after our longtime Washington D.C. Insider first outlined shocking details of an Obama administration having been “overruled” by senior navy and intelligence officials main up to the profitable attack in opposition to terrorist Osama Bin Laden. What follows is additional clarification of Insider’s insights surrounding that event.
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Q: You acknowledged that President Obama was “overruled” by military/intelligence officials relating to the choice to send in navy specialists into the Osama Bin Laden compound. Was that accurate?
A: I was advised - in these actual terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama) I've since adopted up and obtained further particulars on precisely what that meant, in addition to the specifics of how Leon Panetta labored around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.” There seems NOT to have been an outright overruling of any particular position by President Obama, simply because there was no particular position from the president to do so. President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.
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I used to be right in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for a number of weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper. The primary opposition to this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was enough to create uncertainty within President Obama. Obama would meet with numerous elements of the professional-invasion faction, almost all the time with Jarrett current, after which often fail to point his position. This situation continued for some time, though the division between Jarrett/Obama and the rest intensified more lately, most notably from Hillary Clinton. She was furious over the president’s failure to act, and her office started a campaign of anonymous leaks to the media indicating such. As for Jarrett, her concern rested on two primary fronts. One, that the army action could fail and harm the president’s already weakened standing with both the American public and the world. Second, that the attack would be considered as an act of aggression in opposition to Muslims, and further destabilize situations in the Middle East.
Q: What changed the president’s position and enabled the attack towards Osama Bin Laden to proceed?