{"id":29864,"date":"2012-05-08T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29864"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:15:18","slug":"mukasey-panetta-had-a-highly-lawyered-memo-to-protect-obama-if-the-raid-had-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29864","title":{"rendered":"Mukasey; Panetta had a &#8220;highly lawyered&#8221; memo to protect Obama if the raid had failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/05\/07\/mukasey-panetta-drafted-memo-to-insulate-obama-if-bin-laden-raid-went-bad-video\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> which reports from the Hannity Show that former U.S. Attorney Michael Mukasey reveals that Leon Panetta, then CIA director, had a memo drafted that would have absolved the President of any blame if the bin Laden raid had failed for some reason;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?height=300&#038;embedCode=FxMjduNDqrRkG7ZWeyFRta9fvXlcxINU&#038;video_pcode=k4Nmw6Cri746xA2OsoSlngyrIudg&#038;width=500&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=FxMjduNDqrRkG7ZWeyFRta9fvXlcxINU\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was a memo from Leon Panetta that described the authority that was given to McCraven,\u201d Mukasey explained. \u201cAnd it was to proceed according to the risks, only according to the risks that had been outlined to the president. And if he encountered anything else, he had to check back. And you better believe that if anything else had been encountered and the mission had failed, then the blame would have fallen on McCraven. That\u2019s what that\u2019s about.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the note that Eisenhower drafted before the D-Day invasion, the one in which he took complete blame for what might be a failure? That&#8217;s because that&#8217;s what a real leader does.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that revelation, our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/assolutatranquillita.blogspot.ca\/2012\/05\/former-seal-to-bho-stop-using-us-as.html\">Aunty Brat<\/a> has the story of an actual Navy SEAL&#8217;s open letter to the President asking him to stop taking credit for the operation. You should read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the Daily Caller which reports from the Hannity Show &hellip; <a title=\"Mukasey; Panetta had a &#8220;highly lawyered&#8221; memo to protect Obama if the raid had failed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29864\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mukasey; Panetta had a &#8220;highly lawyered&#8221; memo to protect Obama if the raid had failed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}