Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity tonight that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.
“That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)… I think there’s going to be more that’s going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough.“
TRANSCRIPT:
Here with more on this is former attorney general of the United States, who presided over a number of very high-profile terror trials as a federal judge, Michael Mukasey.
How are you? Good to see you, sir. Thank you for being with us. I have read your whole piece. I have it in front of me. First of all, the thing that has bothered me which has not been talked about much in the media is the president had a fall-back, it just didn’t work out. He had a CYA.
MICHAEL MUKASEY, FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL: That memo was significant.
HANNITY: Explain this.
MUKASEY: There was a memo from Leon Panetta that described the authority that was given to McCraven and it was to proceed according to the risks, only according to the risks that had been outline to the president.
And if he encountered anything else, he had to check back. You better believe if anything else had been encountered and the mission had failed, then the blame would have fall own McCraven. That’s what that is about.
HANNITY: So in other words, here, the approximate president’s now, everything worked out in this case. But he had put in place a CYA that if it went wrong, McCraven would have been the fall guy.
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This should come as no surprise. obama has no true love or respect for the military except to use them as scapegoats or BS them in order to get their votes. obama and hillary bothe have expressed their dislike for the military in spite of what they say. This clown is as trifling as one person can be. And the sooner he is gone from the White House, the better off America will be.
Like a true narcissist and ego maniac, Obama was quick to take credit and his press release was full of “l did this, I did that, I, I, I.” The SEALS were hardly back to safety before Obama took credit, and in so doing, he negated the value of a lot of the intelligence the SEALS brought back. But you can bet your last dollar that had the mission failed, he would have blamed the military and absolved himself of any responsibility.
It is well known that he and Moochele do not like the military, and I sincerely hope our military returns the sentiment. Our country desparately needs to get rid of this fraud before he takes us all down.
I’m trying to get someone to listen to me!
The OBL kill was accomplished one week earlier than it was reported by the news media. The reason is exactly so that BHO could distance himself from a failed attempt.
I heard the report myself! I’m only sorry that I did not make a note of the reporting news service, but I believe it might have been ABC news.
I’m sure somebody in the media can check this out …if it hasn’t been pulled already.
drftrapani
And who is surprised by this? Only idiots who think Obama is great! He has always dissed our military because he knows they do not respect him or his policies and treatment of them, and rightly so. He should be afraid! He blames everyone and everything but himself, which is what a true psycho-narcissist does.