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Former CIA Operative Mike Baker discusses the president’s speech on the one-year anniversary of the death of the terrorist leader.
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-- -- Well thank god nobody's trying to politicize the death -- bin -- during -- election season.
I was you know what I was inclined not to be churlish about the White House yield making some hay out of it until.
They just -- -- touched down in Afghanistan.
And tried to.
Pretend as if the reason for a primetime national address.
Will buzz this incredibly important signing of the Afghan US strategy sorry -- -- exit exam.
And you know that if the idea that somehow you know and this was not a campaign speech.
Live from Bagram air base are one of arm and I want -- -- jumps around love watching -- Eric comes -- -- talk problem covered under their Afghanistan.
And then suddenly -- -- -- in general -- of -- upturn thanks -- -- you -- imagine David Axelrod -- all all the -- troops in -- coming up with this -- I think this is fantastic -- with -- that top cover of these you know strategic after an agreement and and we do you spend all -- talking about how valuable that -- will be in the coming years.
-- it yeah it's it's it's very -- there is plenty of credit to go around I think Obama deserves some credit for making the call to launch the operation is -- about that it's not an easy decision.
But you've got -- you've you you've got to -- the lion's share of the credit.
All those people that worked to get us to the point we could make that call.
Give President Bush credit get all those people credit during his administration.
Who are costly being kicked in the -- because you Democrats you know were -- in the whole effort on the war on terror.
A -- low around -- to.
So imply that.
Romney would amend the call over Iran -- -- -- line is just sort of airmen Jimmy Carter commitment to what do what do med dot also driven cars and.
AEI and I think that's it's really interesting -- the defective and that we're talking about you know and would you would you not make the call if you if you break it down into a real simple.
Yield calculus and you say okay what we are options.
You could do what they did you could say okay we've got sufficient intelligence it wasn't conclusive and that's important and now it wasn't that is if they got a 100% information that that he's in.
But you've got sufficient actionable intelligence so what do you do well you could make the call like they did you go into successful wells are.
Or you say well no we're not gonna make this effort we're not gonna launch -- operation.
What everybody knows nobody in Washington keep a secret forever so do you really -- -- finds an outside who who who decided not to take the the opportunity -- to get bin Laden.
So you don't want that.
That -- name what you think of the the workers and as a conservative.
-- not yet out we'll hookers make every story more -- It it's an -- -- -- orders yet well you know that's Colombia amount and I'm very often area that I probably shouldn't be in but I think that I don't know a lot of -- won't tell you -- If sabotage pipelines and -- Teradata relationship -- -- I'll keep sources and methods quiet now but you know if you look at it you think.
There was an odd night but it always or at least at some sort of -- -- -- take in in the press.
And in congress about.
Oh my god was is the first time this has happened you know it is or is this a culture of -- yeah yeah I mean this the first time guys ever took advantage of you know of of the situation when they're overseas and in you know -- I danced with a focus on I think I'm wondering known.
As -- gotta protect the president.
Yeah it it's an absolute mistake -- just arbitrage -- minorities got more to present Arafat well and also you look at look at the area high threat area your hands Columbia for a forward -- -- -- an 88 it's.
We can make light of it because well you know look at the story now -- What they did can't -- don't you can't go overseas in an operational.
Capacity.
Like these guys do or anybody else does in in in in pursuit of -- mission.
And sleep with a foreign national.
It's a counterintelligence nightmare and and so he is so in all honesty -- what they should have done was immediate look to -- -- supervisors that we're aware of it have to be like it's yet they can't keep those as a rock.
The employees in a starting a -- some of the guys in the streets and actually the detail.
I don't know a suspend them take a look at what they do in terms of their counterintelligence stranded out.
And then -- much chance but the idea that somehow this was the first time this has ever happened -- a little bit insanity don't alphabet slam.
I don't know.
Old buddy I don't I'm in terms of -- -- like him all I hear is great guess -- are terrific -- him.
Some are disinformation -- zone.
One of these there well I beyond enough -- -- enough time so.
Find their literature -- of an -- whack -- over the -- with a two but was there is unlikely I'm gonna do that.
Or anybody here and -- building a that's a -- nicest -- -- see -- thanks a much longer -- in my maker announced in my program forging their economic -- -- I don't know what -- --
