Ryan Streeter
Three good questions from Pete Wehner. He says
that it’s fair to ask (a) which Bush-era policies, if any, helped lead to the death of Osama bin Laden; (b) which Bush-era policies that Obama opposed made bin Laden’s death possible; and (c) what would have happened to bin Laden if he had in fact been captured rather than killed and Attorney General Eric Holder had his way (a national security official told Reuters that the U.S. special forces team that hunted down bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him).
You can see where Pete's going with this, and they're good questions. One wonders whether Obama will ever say (after his Presidency, when he writes his memoirs) whether the operation he ordered was based on intelligence gathered in ways or places he has vehemently criticized.
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