What A Difference A Decade Makes (For The CIA)

In Finding Osama bin Laden, CIA Soars From Distress To Success -- L.A. Times

With more funding, better technology and a reorganized intelligence community, the CIA shows how far it has come since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Reporting from Washington — The first CIA officers who rushed to Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden after the terrorist attacks of 2001 had to buy field gear at an REI camping goods store in Virginia. Some flew in on rickety, former Soviet helicopters. A few rode horses.

What a difference a decade makes.

Thanks to U.S. intelligence, the Navy SEALs who killed Bin Laden last Monday swept into Pakistan on nearly silent, secret stealth helicopters. The assault team had practiced in Afghanistan on a full-scale mock-up of the maze-like compound.

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My Comment: Yup .... what a difference a decade makes .... and this is where a special acknowledgement should be made to the Bush administration who were the first to greatly expand the scope and size of America's special operations task force right after 9/11.