Saturday, September 6, 2014

Why Is The U.S. Government Ignoring The Documents And Intel Retrieved In The Bin Laden Raid?

President Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room. Pete Souza/White House

Al Qaeda Wasn’t ‘On The Run’ -- Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard

Why haven’t we seen the documents retrieved in the bin Laden raid?

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, an elite team of 25 American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the walls of a compound just outside the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. CIA analysts had painstakingly tracked a courier to the compound and spent months monitoring the activity inside the walls. They’d concluded, with varying levels of confidence, that the expansive white building at the center of the lot was the hideout of Osama bin Laden.

They were correct. And minutes after the team landed, the search for bin Laden ended with a shot to his head.

The primary objective of Operation Neptune Spear was to capture or kill the leader of al Qaeda. But a handful of those on the ground that night were part of a “Sensitive Site Exploitation” team that had a secondary mission: to gather as much intelligence from the compound as they could.

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My Comment: A million pages of documents were seized from the Bin laden raid .... and only 10% has been looked at and analyzed !?!?!?!?! There is something seriously wrong here.

1 comment:

James said...

Enough of them were looked at to cause a policy of non-release regardless of who or the need of the customer requesting access. This is a clear misjudgement and allocation of political vs military needs.