Judicial Watch claims the secrets were provided for a film on the bin Laden raid that was first scheduled to be released Oct. 12, just in time to boost the president's image shortly before the November elections.

Not Fox News....but an ex-military observer.

Releasing this information TO ANYONE for political gains is completely and totally DISGUSTING.

The Obama Administration apparently has NO respect for the lives of our military men and women. So, active and retired military, take that to the polls this November.

And you apparently have no idea of what a "classified" document or information is.

This shouldn't suprise anyone! Obama can't 'spike the football' without everone knowing about it.... it's an election year and he's desperate! There should be repercussions for this leak, but like Fast and Furious and Solyndra... it will quickly fade away!

How do you know the sensitivity of the information provided? Any "helpful hints" you give the enemy can have disastrous results for future ops. This is serious stuff, folks, so don't just go around blowing "progressive" smoke up everyone's okole. This is a stupid move by an ignoramus POTUS who thinks he can talk everyone down from potential conflict. Sorry, Barry, but the terrorists are listening!

I think the whole Bin Laden killing should be put on pay per view with no editing. From the bullet going in his left eye making a nice wall splatter to flushing him in the ocean like a dead goldfish.

Start with $49.95 for the full package and I bet the box office sales expolde. Donate all the proceeds to wounded vet organizations or scholorships to the kids who lost parents in 9/11. Bring your popcorn!

Strange how the obama administration was so worried about POing the big bad muslims when it came to releasing the dirt bags dead picture, but they don't seem so worried about it when making this propaganda film for obamas re-election.

So the Obama administration is leaking classified information to their friends in Hollywood so that they will do a film that makes the President look good and helps his reelection chances. This is disgusting and any one involved in the authorization of these leaks or the actual leaking of classified information needs to be prosecuted and sent to prison for a very long time. If the authorization for giving them the information came from Obama he should be impeached. It is completely unacceptable, not to mention highly illegal, for the administration to be leaking classified military documents for any reason, let alone for political gains. This just goes the show that the Obama administration cares more about politics and keeping their cushy jobs in the administration than they do about our nations military secrets and the lives of our service members. At least Sony Pictures has had the decency to thwart the administration's political objectives by delaying the release of the film until after the elections.

must have been at one of Obama's lavish parties for Hollywood celebrities

This surprises you all how? LOL, no surprise to me.

Lets see how many plains they fly into buildings after this movie come out. Obama administration does not care if that happens just as long as he get his bump in the polls , gooooooood job dumb ace

Sony Execs donated $331,849 to various political campaigns (both parties actually).. They were just getting reimbursed.

Awww, I wanna see this!

Ido, I guess you think Republicans, who went to war on the cheap, refused to provide enough body armor, armored vehicles, and troops, and ignored bin Laden for years care more about the troops? Makes sense to me.

Remind me again - which party booed an active-duty soldier during a debate?

Are you just keeping score? So, if the Republicans do something that isn't in line with respect for the troops or the people, it's okay if the Democrats do it too? Is that it? Really?

You are right ldo. What Obama is doing is truly repulsive. He doesn't care about Seal Team 6, he just cares about how many extra votes he gets by showing this video. Seal Team 6 killed Bin Laden, but Obama and his Liberal friends are trying to make it look like Obama flew the Black Hawk in and personally killed Bin Laden.

" and ignored bin Laden for years"

If you are mad at G.W. Bush for not assassinating Bin Laden within 8 years, then you might as well be mad at FDR for not assassinating Hitler within 10 years.

That Robert DE Niro comment with Michelle Obama, and George Clooney's $40,000 per plate diner fund raiser for Obama is all starting to come into better focus. Money makes the world go round, and there's not too much wrong with that, so long as you Earn It, but to sell out your own country to personal gain,... I'd say that's pretty much the actions of a traitor.

Filtered or not, this is the disgusting actions of a man full of gall and not much else. Politics just got worse, and it took Obama to show you how to do it. BAM!!! in your face America, suck it up, Obama's driving.

It's just absolutely incredible how low this politician named Obama will go.... he's a real Puto, constantly selling bits of his soul and all of America with it, for his personal Wealth and Power. He's everything a liberal claims to hate, but embraces when it's one of their own. What a scumbag Obama is to the marrow.

I have to scratch my head, when a Liberal slams Bush for not having a Military Ready to fight a war, 8 months after taking office, after 12 years of Bush Sr and Slick Willy trying to wind down the military...then shake it a little when these exact same Liberals are trying to cut 500 Billion from the Military so they will have enough money to buy "Condoms for Crack Whores"...

Duphas, orale carnal, diga le!! I know there are others who are offended by the paucity of modesty and altruism displayed by the Anointed One when he came on the tube and told America what HE did. Assisted of course by Seal Team 6 and a large portion of the US Naval Fleet in the Indian Ocean; I'm quite offended by the lack of humility displayed, he couldn't carry their jock straps.

That members of his administration gave classified information, no matter how trivial some may deem it to be, to film-makers to further embellish his credentials is sycophantic at best and most likely to be spoken of a good old fashioned boot licking.

So all I need to do is call up the white house and say I am doing research for a movie and I can get all the classified information I want from them. Nice to know. And I am sure all our enemy's are glad to know also. I can think of a whole lot of things but first on the list is I am doing a movie on Fast and Furious, who authorized it and who knew.

This administration has no shame or ethics. Anything for a political win no matter who it kills.

Are you kidding me?!!! Obama has done more for the military than any Republican? He hasn't done anything for the troops. The exit out of Iraq was a Bush administration plan that Obama graned had the wisdom to implement. He is raising the cost of Tricare, closing commissaries, reducing the force and leaking classified info. Go back and look at what Reagan did to repair the damage Carter did. You are so full of Obama feces it is ridiculous.

@Seven2Seven:

You're sick. Get help. And please, stay away from kids!

Obama has made the office of president a joke. He is a groupie who can't get enough of partying with the stars. Clooney and Sarah Jessica Parker raise money for him and Hallie Barry is gonna give him a call to chase away the big bad papparazzi. Fail

I guess Clinton left his mark on the office too.

Ido, I guess you think Republicans, who went to war on the cheap, refused to provide enough body armor, armored vehicles, and troops, and ignored bin Laden for years care more about the troops? Makes sense to me.

Sorry, but there was nothing "cheap" about their approach to war. I was in the Marine Corps when the war kicked off and I will tell you lots of money was supplied. Body armour, armored vehicles and bodies were provided as fast as the supply chain could procure them. The officer corps wasted a lot of the resources given to them, but I blame the officers for that, not the politicians.

I can't believe I just defended politicians :(

Bush and Cheney should have been impeached and put in prison.

That was Pelosi and Reid's job to impeach them. If you feel they made a mistake in not doing it, then I suggest you contribute to their challenger's campaign in the next election.

@ Robert

I wouldn't waste your time...Madcow, Mr. Ed, and Michael "the hut" Moore, has already written all the history of the Iraq War (and American History) that any of them is going to believe

starsailing, your drivel is starting to make me ill! Obama isn't a patch on President Regan's suit. I don't have a thing to say about Bush, and Bush II, they are as liberal as Cinton and Obama ever were. I don't vote for the party politician, I vote for the man. This year, I vote against Obama, there's no other choice. If this potus is leaking classified info of any kind for political gain, he should be tried as a criminal. He has done nothing but apologize for America, and thinks he can talk his way through the presidency. I've had my belly full of hope and change for the last 4 years. I would frankly vote for just about anyone to vote against this sad specimen of a candidate.

Liaa glad you feel ill...I must be doing the right thing. The whole world thinks better of the United Staes since Pres Obama took office because of Bush/Cheney starting two wars and failing to get Bin Laden in Afganistan then starting a second war for profit based on lies.

Do search on.... Fox News Dumber ...Liaa and see the studies that show why you are dumber for watching Fox news...lies and false information like you spread on this blog.

I don't watch any of the news outlets, I read, read, read. The whole world laughs at the big O. He has spent the money that belongs to our great grandchildren, this country belongs to China and he wants to borrow more. You could improve your intelligence by pulling your head out....of the sand. Our economy has never been in such sorry shape, and there is no recovery in sight. Mrs. O requires more than 20 assistants, compared to 2 or 3 by every other flotus. She has spent more on vacations and a separate airplane than the government spends on Veterans returning from Iraq/Afghanistan. I could go on here but I would rather go to sleep.

Liaa you are asleep and just dreaming of your lies. I can tell by the lies you watch fox fake news....aaahahahahaha....did you do the search on Fox news dumber...aaahahaha. All false stories. Bush however spent one week each month on vaction. How much money Liaa spent on Iraq lie war, all the money spent all these years...Billions and Billions .......and that compares to a vacation for the Mrs?....aaahahahahaha Facts are Pres Obama has saved the economy and all facts prove it. The economy crashed under repubs Bush and Obama turned the crash around despite promises by repubs to stop it. Nite nite Liaa!

Robert ..the whole fiasco of poor supplies and NO plan after Sadaam was captured was daily news. Worse than Bush's Katrina failure.

I can believe you or I can believe what I saw. I chose to believe what I saw. You are simply being unrealistic on how fast the supply chain can move. As far as no plan goes, I think you are being pretty unrealistic on that point too. If it is so easy to implement a plan and change an entire culture overnight, why hasn't it been put in place already?

The American body count proves the failure.

The American body count was extraordinarily low. Don't take my word for it, check out the stats on WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

The nation needed healing, impeaching Bush would have been the correct action by Pelosi. But like Pres Obama, they think they can try to work with repubs for the good of the nation.

None of the current group of politicians have a very good record of working together. You can stick to your "my party is perfect, it's the other guys fault" if you want to, but I think I will go with a more balanced approach to life.

So you were lied to and sent into war Robert........

I doubt it. Bush, Pelosi, Reid, McCain, etc. were wrong, but I doubt they lied.

starsailing,

The only star you are sailing is uranus.

You are a true representative of just how uninformed uneducated the typical Demoncrap is.

First, the reason why the US Military and US Intelligence Agencies were unprepared for the War At Iraq was the FACT that President Clinton Gutted the US Intelligence Agencies that left the US Blind throughout the World.

The President Clinton as Commander In Chief Ordered the Cut to the Bone Reduction In Forces (RIF) of the US Military and don't even attempt to defend that or say that President Clinton did NOT do that because I survived that and all the US Military Operations done with limited resources "DONE ON THE CHEAP" during President Clinton including Operation Gothic Serpent. And DO NOT SAY IT IS THE REPUGNANTS DEMANDING WAR ON THE CHEAP (Getting us killed) that can be seen here on Newsvine that it is the Demoncraps NOT the Repugnants, as well as President Obama's ACTIONS (President Obama's Demanded US Military Defense Budget Cuts April 2009, 2012 RIF of the US Military, etc.).

You and the uninformed Demoncraps continually prove beyond a reasonable doubt just how much you refuse to Man or Woman Up to your own mistakes.

You are quick to point out how Bush got us into Two Wars, without realizing that the Iraq War started with US Law H.R. 4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998" and Operation Desert Fox, both of which my Teams participated in. You continually attribute Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) to President Bush and completely ignore in writing Section 2 Findings of US Law H.R.4655, and President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address.

And like all Demoncraps cannot connect the dots, lack of cognitive reasoning skills and brain matter.

Weeks after the 9/11 2001 Attacks, our Teams were sent into Afghanistan with the Mission to Overthrow the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban Government that provided Islamic Sanctuary to Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada and the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Training Camps. Regardless of the huge losses of our decades old buddies and friends we chased the Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada and the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist along the Old Silk Road to Northern Iraq. We were killing them off with extreme prejudice. At that point the US Politicians DEMANDED we stop as not to violate Nations Sovereignty.

The Mission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxKhJIjIiY

To get around the violation of Nations Sovereignty President Bush pushed for US Law 2002 Iraqi War Resolution so that we could continue fighting Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada, the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist and the Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban that escaped into Northern Iraq and reformed, rearmed, reequipped and got stronger as Ansar Al Islam. Our Teams attached to the CIA's SAD/SOG went into Northern Iraq supplemented by the US Army 10th Special Forces Group as 2002 Operation Hotel California. During the intense battles with Ansar Al Islam we lost many mission critical "Middle East" Qualified personnel, it was normal not the exception to earn the Bronze Star for valor (multiple awards), the CIA SAD/SOG also Redacted.

So there is you spoonfed tie between what we did at 2001- 2001 Afghanistan and 2002-2003 Iraq and why from a surviving participant.

Because of the US No Assassination Policy the original mission to Afghanistan was NEVER to Get Osama Bin Laden. This mission was ADDED AFTER President Bush Amended the US No Assassination Policy by Executive Order 2006 to get around the Objections of US Congress. The Mission Added in 2006 was for us to Capture Osama Bin Laden and Failing that as a Mission Failure Terminate Osama Bin Laden.

*******************SO STOP LYING starsailing**********************

And now once again the Demoncraps LYING. FACTS AND RESULTS NOT YOUR uneducated non factual opinions:

President Obama January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts (Plural) that extended the President Bush Patriot Act (Singular). With President Obama's Patriot Acts (Plural) Legalizing the Monitoring and Censorship of All US Communications (previously declared Illegal during President Bush and stopped), included those defeated as Unconstitutional provisions of US Senate S.1959 and US House of Representatives H.R.1955 aka the George Orwell 1984 Thought Crimes Laws in that the written or verbal thought is the crime as well as the activity, Preemptive Detentions of US Citizens, Classified Military Tribunals (No Real Legal Representation, Classified Accuser(s), Classified Evidence, Classified Sources, etc.), Expanded Presidential Powers, No Material Support to Terrorist Organizations (No Humanitarian Assistance, No Funds, No Medical Supplies, No "Expert Advise" (No Legal Representation), etc.), portions of the revised US Law Insurrection Act as the US Military Use of Deadly Force against armed or unarmed US Citizens, the seizures of registered weapons from US Citizens, US NORTHCOM's expanded Role within the US (US NORTHCOM Contingency Plans, Actions against US Citizens, as Indefinite Detentions, Interrogations, etc.), SSS Codings as No Travel, Blacklists, lots of etc..

President Obama shown here during a staged News Media Event, January 22, 2009 signing his January 21, 2009 Patriot Acts (Plural) 04:38 minutes of 11:55 minutes:

Naomi Wolf: 'Obama can lock any US citizen up without trial'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSeD19m3UE

President Bush left all US Military and US Intelligence Matters up to the Experts (and also all the Blame for any Failures).

President Obama does not listen to the US Military or US Intelligence Agencies Experts and Fires them if they disagree with President Obama. Results:

a. President Obama's March 2009 Policy that resulted in the US Loss of:

1. Loss of the Iraqis Oil to the Chinese and Russian Federation that could have paid for the US Military Liberation of Iraq with Decades of Iraqis Oil. This made the Libyan Oil of Strategic Importance to the US European Allies. Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Iraqis Government pressured by the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran to no longer negotiate with President Obama for the US to remain at Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iraq.

2. The Overthrow of the US Ally of Egypt (President Mubarak), loss of the Strategic Suez Canal. US Ally Egypt becomes the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Egypt as controlled by the Fundamentalist Islamic Muslim Brotherhood that are Fully Backed by the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran.

3. The Overthrow of the US Ally President of Yemen. Al Quada Yemen reopens the Northern Yemen Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Training Camps. Some of my Teams are redeployed from here (Afghanistan) attached to CIA's SAD/SOG to provide security, special reconnaissance, and terminal guidance of MQs.

4. The Overthrow of the Former US Ally President Gaddaffi of Libya, US European Allies loss of Strategic Libyan Oil to the Chinese. President Obama's Guantanamo Prisoners that were sent to President Gaddaffi's Prisons released by the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists aka the "Libyan Rebels". The Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists obtain 20,000 current generation shoulder launched anti aircraft SA-7 missiles to shoot down US Commercial Aircraft.

5. The Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran increases their Strategic Sphere of Influence without US Interventions.

Iran 2009 to 2012, Strait of Hormuz

http://david393071.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/03/9928679-iran-2009-to-2012-strait-of-hormuz

6. Pressure on the US Ally Government of Pakistan to no longer negotiate with President Obama for US Military Bases to stay at Pakistan or the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran will have the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists and Fundamentalist Islamic Citizens of Pakistan Overthrow the US Ally Government of Pakistan.

7. Pressure on the US Ally Government of Afghanistan to have the High Tech Mineral Rights to be given to the Ally of the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran, the Chinese. Result: The US and US Allies loss of the High Tech Minerals required for US Electric Vehicle Batteries, Solar Photovoltaic Panels, etc..

8. US Ally Saudi Arabia attempts to provide more Oil to make up for the losses of the Iraqis Oil, Libyan Oil. US Ally Saudi Arabia is now surrounded (Fundamentalist Islam controls Yemen (South), Egypt (West), Iraq (North), Iran (East), the US Ally King of Saudi Arabia begs the US and Israel for help and is ignored by President Obama, this pisses off the US Ally King of Saudi Arabia so much he states, "President Obama gave Iraq to Iran as a Gift on a Golden Platter".

b. President Obama refuses to listen to General McKiernan's pleas for more US Military Forces to accomplish the General McKiernan Plan to Win Afghanistan, result:

1. General McKiernan as the Appointed by US Congress Commander of Afghanistan, and a US Military Officer being the Representative of the US Citizens of the US Military; go public withan interview with CBS News Katie Couric pertaining to President Obama not listening.

2. President Obama makes a deal with General McKiernan to get General McKiernan's Letter of Resignation.

3. President Obama grabs General McKiernan's Plan to Win Afghanistan and calls this the Obama Plan to Win Afghanistan. Of course since President Obama had zero US Military Experience or Training he did not realize that without General McKiernan's Commander's Intent the Plan is worthless. And after all the grief that President Obama gave General McKiernan and all the other US Military Commanders (President Obama refused to listen to their advice also), General McKiernan does not provide President Obama with his Commander's Intent.

c. President Obama nominates Registered Democrat General McChrystal. Results:

1. President Obama still refuses to listen to his Expert General McChrystal(US Army Special Forces). General McChrystal is briefed upon arrival here (Afghanistan).

2. General McChrystal (US Army Special Forces) as tasked by Admiral McRaven (USN SEAL) provides input from his experience as Commander JSOC, Commander JSOC Task Force Iraq (Locating, Capture of President Hussein), etc. to Admiral McRaven for Operation Neptune (Locating, Capture, or as a last resort the Termination of Osama Bin Laden). As it will be General McChrystal's assets launched from Bagram AFB and the US Military Commander of Afghanistan that will be the OSC (On Scene Commander, Highest Grade US Military Officer in the Area). General McChrystal requests that US Military Asymmetric Warfare at Afghanistan provide him with input. The US Intelligence Agency attached to the US Embassy at Pakistan (HUMINT), NSA (ELINT, SIGINT), NRO, etc. have located a possible location of Osama Bin Laden and their Directors and Secretary of Defense request that President Obama Authorize a US Military Special Reconnaissance Mission into Pakistan. President Obama adamantly denies the Authorization as this will violate Pakistan's Sovereignty and a Failed Mission would end his Political Career. The Secretary of Defense offers President Obama his Letter of Resignation, President Obama refuses to accept the Secretary of Defense's Letter of Resignation and begs him to stay on.

3. President Obama sends almost a hundred thousand US Civilians as his August 2009 US Civilian Surge to Afghanistan. This requires General McChrystal to remove US Military Combat Personnel from Missions to provide security for President Obama's Civilians. These US Civilians also believe they have "Rights" to Burger King, Starbucks, Airconditioned Secure Hotels, Alcoholic Beverages, etc. and increase General McChrystal's Logistics, Supply, Transportation Crisises; as everything must either be flown in or convoyed in from Pakistan (requiring intense US Military security).

4. President Karzai requests that General McChrystal Investigate why President Obama's Political Appointees are spending Billions of USDs and nothing is being Built nor done for Afghanistan. As President Karzai was promised by President Obama's Political Appointees that electicity would be restored at Kabul, so President Karzai told the Afghan People, and when this did not occur, President Karzai started to lose support of the Afghan people.

5. After finding out that General McChrystal is investigating them President Obama's Political Appointees start screaming to the News Media "Karzai Corrupt" to deflect blame. Then President Obama's Political Appointees start to do anything possible to get General McChrystal Relieved of Command to stop his Investigations of them (President Obama's Political Appointees).

6. President Obama as Commander In Chief, establishes his US Military Rules of Engagement without any input from General McChrystal as "Cannot shoot until shot". US Civilian Law Enforcement Rules are put into effect, must be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in a Court of Law (Physical Evidence Required: Gunshot Residue, DNA, etc., witnessing someone shooting at you is not good enough.).

7. General McChrystal requests more US Military Asymmetric Warfare Forces (aka Special Warfare). President Obama as Commander In Chief (given Options by the Pentagon) decides to modify the Options and sends US Military Conventional Warfare Forces and only a fraction of what would be required. (this would be like you only getting a fraction of your paycheck in Pesos instead of US Dollars and be expected to "live with that".).

8. President Obama demands a US Military Budget Cut, April 2009, of the USAF and USN (cut one USN Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, later President Obama backpeddled in his 2012 State of the Union Address). The Secretary of Defense explains to President Obama the consequences of a US Military Defense Budget Cut while the US Military is in Two Wars (and 4 President Obama Secret Wars, President Obama's Discretionary Spending of almost a few Trillion USDs), President Obama does not want to hear the Secretary of Defense's Advice. The Secretary of Defense offers President Obama his Letter of Resignation again, President Obama refuses to accept the Secretary of Defense's Letter of Resignation.

Those are the Reasons why the Demoncraptic National Committee Removed that from President Obama's Achievements Lists.

You too can wait about 20 years and under the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) obtain the Mission Videos (Cams worn at Pakistan) to the C4I Helicopter (Pakistan) to the Video Conferences at Afghanistan (General Petraeus and Bagram AFB), SOC, JSOC (Admiral McRaven), CIA (Leon Penetta), Whitehouse. And during the 23 minute communications Blackout at the Whitehouse listen very closely to the conversations. You can do the same with the Mission of USNSWDG to Rescue Captain Phillips. starsailingyou and the Demoncraps uninformed view of President Obama will quickly be changed.

Just after the US Army 160th SOAR, USNSWDG, Teams attached to CIA's SAD/SOG, etc. landed I stated what had happened, we are one day ahead of you. Months before I had previously told all of you about the pain in the arse US Civilian Supply Clerks sent here by President Obama's US Civilian Surge that gave me a hard time getting our batteries for our stereoscopic (depth perception) night vision devices, think about this if Night Raids here (Afghanistan) were banned by President Obama, what were we going to use night vision devices for. Special Reconnaissance Mission (to verify OBL was there, later May 2012 verified by Secretary of Defense Gates interview with CBS News "Did not know") turned into a Direct Action (Raid).

April 2009 President Obama as Commander In Chief Demands/Orders a US Military Defense Budget Cut while the US Military is at Two Wars (plus Four President Obama Secret Wars).

Many more President Obama screw ups from April 2009 till now.

President Obama as Commander In Chief demands a Reduction In Forces (RIF) of the US Military, Secretary of Defense Gates objects and tenders his Letter of Resignation for the fourth time. Secretary of Defense Gates during his last visit here (Afghanistan) tell us what President Obama is ordering, and explains how not to get RIFed.

May 2012, President Obama praises the US Military and then backstabs them by throwing them on Unemployment with his Reduction In Forces (RIF) of the US Military of:

80,000 US Military Personnel

PLUS 27,000 US Military Personnel Returning from the Wars

PLUS 10,000 US Military Personnel returning from the US Military Installations Closed at Germany (Logistics Supply and Transportation Support for Afghanistan)

PLUS 5 more Brigades all being thrown on Unemployment.

PLUS xxx,xxx US Civilians that provided support to the soon to be RIF'ed US Military Personnel.

PLUS about 1 (one) Million US Civilians of the US Military Defense Industrial Complex (President Obama's and Secretary of Defense Leon Penetta's "A 10% US Military Defense Budget Cut will result in a million US Civilians becoming Unemployed").

The specific numbers by Branch of Service can be seen here: US Army: www.armytimes.com; USAF: www.airforcetimes.com ; USMC: www.marinecorpstimes.com ; USN www.navytimes.com;

The US Civilians to be Unemployed: www.federaltimes.com

TRANSLATION FOR THE BRAIN DEAD DEMONCRAPS: Those US Military that are NOT RIF'ed will have longer Deployments, shorter intervals between Deployments, and more Deployments.

starsailing - Had 5 friends over there. I know everything that happened.

That was them as participants NOT YOUR ARSE as a NON PARTICIPANT, that does NOT Know anything.

And like I stated before US Military and US Allies Militarises Conventional Warfare Forces are NOT told everything. It is our Job to know, unlike the US Military Conventional Warfare Forces that may not "have a need to know".

What kind of "plan" would you have liked the DoD to have setup star for after the initial fighting was over? With too many unknowns and variables that they were facing it would have been an extremely difficult task to foresee what to do in Iraq after the war or even during the initial operation itself. Actually, I am pretty sure that you probably don't even get the complexity of an operation's order or what an operations order consists of, the supply chain, and the decisions that need to be made to fight any battle at all.

Anyone could do a "search" for lies from Presidents and come up with varying degree's of differences of what someone said compared to what they thought the President knew at the time of the decision. You are at least consistent on your hatred towards Fox news although what you haven't seemed to realize is that the main stream media (MSN, NBC, CBS, CNN) are biased towards the liberal end of the spectrum and are only vetting the GOP candidates and giving our current President (That is right I called him the President) a pass at any of the decisions that he has made over the last 4 years or any part of his life at all.

This is where the liberals falter and lose the American populace support, when liberals change their mind about an issue (the president and his view on gay marriage) they are evolving, when a GOP does it...they are liars looking to gain political favor.

This information should never have been released to the public regardless of its classified sensitivity. If it was released by the administration...it was approved from the President...period. He has used this as a tool to attempt to push favor towards his re-election...thank you to Sony for releasing the movie AFTER the election.

Starsailing... So the US had no plan for after saddam was captured? How droll, thanks for showing us all that your thinking is right up there sailing around in never never land.

At least we know what obamas plan would have been, Shoot him in his spider hole, drag him out and dump the body in the gulf. Then he would get on TV and tell the world how he gave the order for his death. That is obama, forget any rule of law, just spin to try for every vote he can.

This movie ploy is just one more example of his willingness to spare nothing to get re-elected.

@RealWorldProgressive

I take it that you are homosexual/gay. It never surprises me how you can have a topic totally unrelated, but have to drag your agenda into play somehow. Please find a discussion elsewhere that is related...

Big news here at the time was there was NO PLAN after Sadaam. NONE.

Other people here have already pointed out the other side of the argument so I'm not going to pile on, but I do want to address this one point. There simply is no plan that will work as well as you want it to. None whatsoever. The post-occupation plan was not the one that I would have picked, but I'll be the first one to admit that my plan has drawbacks too. I will point out the Democrats so cheer so hard for had years to implement their plan (which looked very similar to the Republican plan by the way) and they weren't able to achieve any better results. What would you have done had you been in charge?

I understand your frustration, but this really is a difficult problem to solve and unrealistic expectations won't help anything. Have a good night sir.

You self-aggrandizing, overblown meatheads can vomit your idiotic drivel all over your keyboards, but I think everyone here is missing the point....

Bush was a stooge, Cheney was the architect behind two illegal wars of aggression, and Obama is simply the third installment of Bush's BS. If you knuckledraggers cannot be bothered to understand that there is practically no difference between the ONLY two political parties in this country, as well as the farce that comprises our electoral system, you have no right to be on this forum spouting your myopic BS.

As for Bin Laden...well, I WANT THE F--KING VIDEOS AND "CLASSIFIED" INTELLIGENCE!!

Yeah! I WANT TO SEE THE INFO! Because I don't believe for a sec that ANY of this crap actually happened. You mean to tell me, that we, the American populace who sat through 9/11 and the longest war in US history that resulted, were not allowed to see/hear/read the details becasuse we didn't wantr to "offensd" the muslims? Like our goddamned drones, bombs, and door-to-door slaughter of the Iraqis wasn't insulting enough to them? But NOW a f--king American movie company can have the "classified" info for the purposes of making a movie about it?? This is ridiculous!!!

Oh, and David-0184735014651047....you're so full of @!$%# your eyes are puffed out! I don't believe a word you say. If you were actually in the theater at the time, with your so-called high security clearance, you would have far more poignant views on the subject than your Zionist-licking, warmongering partisan BS!! GO vomit your BS on another forum!!!

I want the video of the Bin Laden raid, I want the video of his autopsy (if there was one!), and I want to see the video of his burial at sea (how convenient!). And I want CLEAR imaging, not this grainy, 1962-era BS that we get fed by the government. It's 2012, we can film a dime from outerspace with our camera technology, so I want the REAL footage of this...not some monkeyed baloney.

Lastly, quit the partisan bickering, you all sound like idiots. I know.....I want to hear ONE OF YOU actually give me a good reason why in the land of "free choice" we still only have TWO parties to choose from after 230 years of this nation's founding??? Hell, I can move to Cuba and have more choices for political parties (albeit under a dictator!) than we do here!

As a former Marine that has served several tours to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region with Marine Force Recon, I find it appalling and disrespectful that Obama would use the actions of our military for political gain. Our Unit has worked very closely with many SEAL Teams and trust me ..... they are not in the least happy with Obama's boasting about how 'he' killed Bin Laden, in fact; many of us in the military don't like Obama, we think he does nothing for our country and his only agenda is to use the ridiculous bail-outs and the killing of Bid Laden to once again pull the wool over the sheep's eyes. As far as the bail-outs what Obama fails to mention is how much money was wasted on Wall Street and the big bankers took millions of that money and bolted, for the most part the bail-out was an epic failure, he hasn't created any jobs, the economy is still in the dumps, in the 1000+ days that he been the President he has added another 5 Trillion dollars worth of debt and goes around apologizing to everyone except the people that he really should be apologizing to ...... the American people. He is certainly no leader, at best he's a follower if that.

He flies around in Air Force One at $181,000 per hour like it's nothing, the guy is ruining this country. He thinks that Afghanistan is a success, if so, then why does he need to fly in secretly at night with all of the light off except the runway blues, make a bullsh!t speech to our military and then secretly fly off only to miss a blast that killed several people after his take off. If Iraq and Afghanistan were so successful then he should to walk freely down the streets waving the American flag .... He would not last two seconds if he tried that and that doesn't sound very successful to me.

If Obama wants to use the military for a platform for re-election then perhaps he should suit in some camos and MRE's and go to Afghanistan and for God sake, take Oprah with him.

God Bless America and SEMPER FI TO MY MARINE FORCE RECON BROTHERS .......!

Judicial Watch makes an accusation and all you people jump on their bandwagon. I went to Judicial Watch's website. They have an interesting array of stories, all targeting Democrats and /or Obama. One sided bias for certain. Not really the best source for news.

I tried to find information on Cheney and fabricated pre-Iraq War WMD evidence. Wasn't any.

I tried to find Bush and waterboarding. Nothing pursued there.

I should try Cheney , Libby, and the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, but I knew it wouldn't be there.

Hey, did any of you see Ted Koppel's wonderful piece on Vietnam back in October 2004 where he goes to Vietnam with a film crew and actually visits the scene of that famous Kerry battle during the Vietnam War.?

Many of the older men and women there remembered the day when a Swift Boat responded to the North Vietnamese regulars who had set up a base camp in the village which was adjacent to the site of the attack. One man showed where they had buried the dead from that day. Another described that days battle. The North Vietnamese fired on the swift boat as it passed by. The US boat turned and headed right for the machine gun position, guns blazing. The North Vietnamese group of 7 returned fire, but most had only rifles. The boat kept coming, guns still blazing. The machine gunner retreated into the cover of the jungle. The boat ran aground and a tall American leapt from the boat, racing in pursuit of the machine gunner. More gunfire from the jungle. And a young, tall American walked out.

That young American was John Kerry.

Then, Ted Koppel asked the Vietnamese villager if any other Americans had ever visited their village since the day John Kerry was there. He looked surprised by the question and replied. You are the first American to visit here since that day. No foreigners have ever visited here except for that day and today.

This is a story from Nightline. I've paraphrased it from memory, but it is a truthful, honest attempt by Ted Koppel to learn the facts of that day.

TRUTH should be the master of us all. When the TRUTH becomes enslaved to a political ideology, it will wither and die.

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Reason for NOT releasing his college transcripts: TOO MUCH NEGATIVE INFORMATION.

Obama administration does not care if Bin Laden followers run two more plains into to our buildings and kiss another 3,000 souls just so he can get a bump in his numbers. What do you think Arabs are going to sit by and watch us mock their leader. Good job dumb ace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAZINGA!!!

My hunch is that Obama can't release his college transcripts because there are serious problems and inconsistencies with them. Based on his lack of understanding of basic things like constitutional law and criminal law in general, I seriously doubt he got a law degree. If he was granted a degree, it was probably due to favors from friends or affirmative action. Barack does not seem to be very intelligent. This is blatantly obvious when he has to speak without the aid of his trusty teleprompter.

It is interesting that WHAT EVER school he attended, in Kenya, England, Indonesia, his education was just as poor as getting one in the US! You need only look at his decisions to know he had a sub par education.

Obama claimed to be an International student in order to gain admissions and financial aid advantages. yet he was a US citizen. His college records show him as an Int'l student, and this is what he hopes to hide. He is cut from the same clothe as Elizabeth Warren - the Oklahoma woman running for Senator from Mass., and who claimed to be a Native American on her resume and applications for 20 years in order to get better jobs in academia and government, but who now renounces that as a small "fib". Obama and Warren are from the same Liberal school of malleable ethics and loose situational morality. Do whatever it takes to win and then claim foul when caught.

Not one bit surprised.

No story here.

Obama administration gave classified information to a foreign corporation. All in a day's work for Obama.

I would like to know if normal protocols were followed and the information was properly declassified for distribution to "media" prior to this release taking place.

Would someone in congress please look into this for me.

thank you.

This makes Dick Armitage's slip leaking Valerie Plame's name to Bob Woodward and Robert Novak look minor. Looks like members of the Obama Administration need to be prosecuted.

On another note, can you just imagine what Hollywood is going to do with the Bin Laden event? No doubt Bin Laden will be portrayed as an innocent "freedom fighter" and the Seals out to be ruthless murderers.

Wait... we were told by the press secretary that the film makers had no access to anyone involved, and received no information...

What is the difference between this administration and the last. Everyone is a politician - looking for any way to increase their chance for re-election.

I am so sorry that this continues. Is there no one who will stand up and be proper in anything?

Thank-you Seal Team 6. Good Job. We miss you and are grateful.

Ron Paul DOES!

Apparently you have already forgotten the previous dishonest occupant of the White House, you know, the one who got all this mess started in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place? The one who used that same dishonesty to commit our brave young men and women to a conflict from which many of them would never return. But hey, I guess that was "patriotic" then, wasn't it? "Most dishonest?" Not by a long shot my friend, not by a long shot.

Presidents have been utilizing the military politically for ages (on BOTH sides of the aisle). Does the phrase "Mission Accomplished" emblazoned prematurely on an aircraft carrier ring a bell?

(And let's not even get started on all the secretive no-bid Blackwater/Halliburton contracts at the taxpayer's expense)

concerned_citizen

You dont really seem to have the mental capacity to have a real debate.

When the US went into Iraq, it was voted on by congress, the majority of democrats voted to go in. They did so because the intelligence information was shared with them. 79% of the American people approved of it. Your democratic hero Bill Clinton is on record saying he was told by the intelligence community there were WMD and in fact said he supported President Bush gong in...

I'm sure you have heard this all before, but facts are not as convenient as lies to a democrat.

Second, giving secret documents to a film maker for election purposes should be a crime, and I hope they find those that did it.

Obimsal is the most dishonest person to be elected to the presidency. A constitution lawyer that lies about the role of SCOTUS, in front of the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada. Claiming he his parents met at a famous demonstration where he was concieved, only it happened 4 years prior....bold faced lies.

Funny how the first line of your defense are insults. But then gain, you are a conservative. It's what you know.

I forgive you

Can you imagine the outcry from the old liberal media if Bush had done such a traitorous thing? In Barry's case it will be soft pedaled... !

Funny how the first line of your defense are insults. But then gain, you are a conservative. It's what you know. I forgive you

"Concerned" Citizen, And like a liberal you side step and avoid the real issue being discussed. I don't forgive you!

ok so what about the rest of what he said? hmmmmm?

Funny how the first line of your defense are insults

C. Citizen.... these are your remarks, criticizing a conservative... yet you seem more comfortable using insults yourself! Interesting trait of a liberal... hypocrisy!

liberals..... They just don't go around telling everyone how they should live their lives and acting above everyone and everything

concerned citizen.... this is exactly what liberals do!!! Everyday, every new government regulation... the liberals would like the Federal Government to run every facet of our lives, from cradle to casket.

Haven't you seen Obama's little cartoon about a fictional character named Julia? It describes how the government controls every part of this cartoon character's life...it's a political ad and would creep you out! It is also liberalism that you just described! Yikes.... can't you see this!

@ Concerned, "Robin, the difference is I know what my faults are and I don't go around preaching "my way is THE way." Show me where I state anything about being "holier than thou" (you know, the stance most right wing conservatives take - the same ones who then get caught time and again with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar)?" sounds kinda like 'holier than thou'

@Concerned Citizen:

Yeah, the Liberals just love government controlling our lives, like when they tell lesbians like myself that they shouldn't be allowed to marry but should be locked up in a concentration camp "in the name of JESUS." Conservatives, on the other hand, are all in favor of small government, which is why they dumped a mere $643 billion into the military (again).

Gary....you really think this press release is bigger than Bush Cheney lying and outing a CIA agent when caught lying. Starting the Iraq war with lies for war profiteers Haliburton, big oil, and no bid contracts, all the dead american soldiers killed in horiffic ways, all the wounded suffering and coming home disabled, and the pain all their families feel every night and day? All built on lies for greed. You really think this press release is worse?

Obviously it is YOU that does not have any mental capacity for any debate on any subject and concerned citizen is spot on.

Starsailing - I doubt if you would recognize any facts outside of what you want to believe.

Let's just take one as summarized by bloombergTV 1 Q 2012 on "no bid contracts" The federal government in 2010 had awarded about $32 billion in no bid contracts and increased them by about $2 billion more in 2011. The best thing about this little tidbit is that no political opinion was attached to it as it was just a printed "fast fact".

The thing is star, is that obama's actions are the ones of concern TODAY as he is the current POTUS and it is his policies that we have to live by today and in the future.

Everyone's a damn hypocrite, political parties are just different groups of the same people and noone represents the people.

Did you get all that? Good, now lets talk about the film makers:

Whoever leaked details should be found and tried based on what information they released. If it endangers lives I say go right ahead and charge them severely, but if it was just basic crap give him a large warning and let him be.

Not only was the info given and used in the movie. All the Bragging by Obama and his minions gave information that got the 26 Seals and Pakis killed in the helicopter attack. Some think Obama even gave a quid pro quo arrangement to Pakistan and gave the Pakis the helicopter to shoot down in return for the SEALS capturing Bin Laden.

Concerned citizen wrote:

Don't get me wrong, liberals are just as capable of embarrassing and despicable acts. They just don't go around telling everyone how they should live their lives and acting above everyone and everything.

That one killed me. The absolute myopia of that statement was awesome!

Concerned citizen; forget about the health care law for a moment, which literally tells every single person who works in the health care industry that they have a new daddy, and that every single thing that they do needs to be reported and regulated by the federal government. Or that now every single person in the US is REQUIRED to have health insurance.

Let's just pretend like that isn't telling every single person how to live their lives, or being above everyone.

You do realize that they banned trans fats in New York? That liberals literally banned clove cigarettes? That they wanted to ban soda from being sold in schools? That they wanted to get rid of bake sales... not just in school, but outside of school also? For every intrusion into your personal life that you could name by a conservative, I'll bet I can name 3 by liberals, all under the guise of 'shared responsibility'. Or even worse, under the logic that if we all have to take care of each other, then you get to tell me what to do.
I hate both parts of that equation.

You should be responsible for yourself, as I am to me.
Stop the intrusion into other people's lives. Elect anyone but Obama.

SONY knows what time it is!

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Now, now, let's not hold the Anointed One to the same standards of integrity as the rest of America. Does anyone else wonder how much it has cost us for the 1st family to have Xmas in Hawai'i? Why is that basically every president since Teddy Roosevelt has held Xmas in the White House and addressed the nation from that building except this one? Follow the money.

The Justice department under President Romney would be the only government department I'm totally OK with seeing expanded after the next election.

They are going to be busy......

I assume you agree that an administration that outs a CIA agent and her entire front company, jeopardizing agents and assets and hurting our intelligence capacity, all to get back at her husband for political purposes should be prosecuted as well right?

I forgot, it's ok as long as you're a republican.

I assume you agree that an administration that outs a CIA agent and her entire front company, jeopardizing agents and assets and hurting our intelligence capacity, all to get back at her husband for political purposes should be prosecuted as well right?

I forgot, it's ok as long as you're a republican.

Actually, the entire Bush Administration should have been tried, convicted and imprisoned. Is it okay with you that the Obama Administration should join them, since you're a Democrat?

dls...your education is showing, war crimes trials should they be necessary are held in The Hague.

Stay on subject you morons! Until classified information is declassified it should never be released. It is a crime and is punishable. The secrets were flyng the first night. No one should have ever been told WHO carried out that mission. They even put out where they work and the lay of the land around them to the world. Thanks for putting targets on the backs of some of the bravest and most capable members of our armed forces. As far as war crimes, which ones? Oh, you mean going into a country to kill the people responsible for planning 9/11. That was an act of war and it was handled perfectly. Or could you mean Iraq? Why don't they release some of those classified documents that would show that WMDs were found and evidence was scooped up and taken away. Crawl back to your fantsy world and let the military continue to protect your rights to be a moron. Oh, I'm sorry, they are busy kicking people out of the military and sending them to the unemployment lines because our defense is too expensive. So much being taken away right under everyones noses because they are living in the past blaming the current situation on the people who are not in control of our livelihood. Trying to get a point across is a lost cause with those of you who have no desire to look at the truth in your faces. Good luck with the next 4 years.

Gunner, Thanks for saying what I was getting ready to. The liberal opinion seems to be that past sins, real and imagined, excuse Obama from any wrongdoing. Nothing could be further from the truth. After his campaign promises, he should be held to a high degree of integrity - it was one of the principles he ran on, after all. Instead, we get FAST AND FURIOUS, Solandra, back room deals with the UN and so much more.

Gunnar and mike, I agree that obama and company made way to much info available concerning the bin laden assassination. With the crash of the heelo in the compound, all obama needed to do was admit that the US was involved. If the heelo hadn't of crashed he should have just kept his mouth shut, admit nothing and just comment that bin laden wouldn't be missed.

gunner-3867236 - Why don't they release some of those classified documents that would show that WMDs were found and evidence was scooped up and taken away.

For the next time you argue with the Demoncraps. Part of our mission during 2002 Operation Hotel California was the capture of the Iraqis Chemical Weapons Facility at Sargat. That is as much information that I can give you about the Iraqis Chemical Weapons Facility (I was previously trained and had experience with Chemical Weapons, and later co authored Operation Steel Box and Operation Golden Python).

As far as all that Weapons of Mass Destruction stuff, that term was started with President Clinton (as we, US Military Trained on Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Munitions wondered what the f**k a Weapon of Mass Destruction was, as we were trained and experienced about how distinct each category is), President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address:

Together we must also confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons, and the outlaw states, terrorists and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade, and much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. The United Nations weapons inspectors have done a truly remarkable job, finding and destroying more of Iraq's arsenal than was destroyed during the entire gulf war. Now, Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission. I know I speak for everyone in this chamber, Republicans and Democrats, when I say to Saddam Hussein, "You cannot defy the will of the world", and when I say to him, "You have used weapons of mass destruction before; we are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again. - President Clinton.

Then repeated again in US Law, H.R.4655 "Iraqis Liberation Act of 1998", Section 2 "Findings". Of course this was not quite accurate, for those of us that were with the US Military Training Teams at US Ally Iraq during the Iran Iraq Wars (rotated to Pakistan/Afghanistan for Operation Cyclone), as we knew that to end the very long Iran Iraq Wars and end the dying of Millions on both sides the US Ally Iraq used Chemical Weapons; just like the US use of Nuclear Weapons instead of Invading Japan with Operation Downfall that would have resulted in Millions dying on both sides.

After our covert Teams attached to the CIA's SAD/SOG attempts (hiring hundreds of thousands of Shia Assassins and Insurgents as part of US Law H.R.4655) to Overthrow President Hussein Failed President Clinton as Commander In Chief decided to implement Operation Desert Fox, and modified 1998 Operation Desert Fox from Iraqis Political or Military Targets to the Urban Poor Areas of Baghdad. We voiced and in writing our concerns, that were ignored, that you do not mess with the "Poor of Islam". President Clinton did not care he did not want the Leadership of Iraq attacked, killed as then there would be no one to negotiate Peace. So we did our mission of Target Damage Assessments and were not allowed to do Targeting during Operation Desert Fox. So after Operation Desert Fox, the Islamic World started calling the US the Great Satan.

Our Teams were those that were shadowing Osama Bin Laden after the 1993 First World Trade Center Bombings and continually requesting Presidential Authorization to Terminate OBL, with President Clinton and President Clinton's Whitehouse refusing based on the US No Assassination Policy. The US Ally Saudi Arabia had OBL in Custody, and offered President Clinton extradition of OBL, with President Clinton refusing the offer. The US Ally Saudi Arabia then asked for the Evidence of OBL's involvement with the 1993 First World Trade Center Bombing so that they could try him and imprison OBL themselves, President Clinton refused, so the US Ally Saudi Arabia without sufficient evidence released OBL along with most of the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists of Al Quada that were involved.

We are then later diverted to Operation Gothic Serpent, as we were previously pulled from UN Mission Somalia II, after previously participating in UN Mission Somalia I. As well as involvements with Libya. We were kind of overstretched (in Combat) ever since the 1980s "Peacetime" US Military.

david-475776 That is sooooo cute how you use that funny word "Democraps" each time. Did you learn that new word in school today? Did you get a star for spelling it correctly? Please stop your useless drivel cause no one believes your BS! Yes, you were probably in the military and were probably on deck when your buddy declared "Mission Accomplished" (Ha Ha Ha HaHa-What a clown!). No go back to whatever you do now, your time as a war hero is over.

Lmao this will make the haji's mad. That was the deal for all the Clooney money. I bet George and Brad are gonna make a movie, and both will be cast as seal team 6 members. Haji not gonna like this at all. I hope they use the real photos. I hope Angelina plays one of Bin Ladens wives.

Yup and they've already paid for the lubricious narrator just waiting to put his face in front of the camera and tell us once again the extremely important central role he occupied, while reading from the tele-prompter.

Grampa, better cool it on the teleprompter comments, when romney wins, he best use a teleprompter himself. Romney makes too many verbal gaffs when he ab libs.

Thank you!!!

I notice that a lot of news today is released by individuals not willing to be identified, both foreign and domestically on a variety of subjects.

No impeachment required, just vote him out come november. We don't need more debt.

Oh, that right....'cause the "conservatives" in the last few administrations didn't add any debt to our coffers, either.....[yawn]

Yeah, go ahead, put f--king Romney in the WH so we can remind myopic conservatives that ALL presidents in recent years have expanded government debt...........

Conservative says it all. Not independent. I reviewed the website and it's just a conservative hit list with a few obviously bad Republicans. Several of the stated facts are incorrect.

dls, you must have missed how the information was obtained... The freedom of information act.

I am sure that if the information came from "think progressive" it would be gospel, right?

It's called Congressional Authorization, ask Hillary about it next time you go to a move-on meeting. She vouched for Code Pink that she personally believed it was the right course of action. Cute video of it on Youtube, look it up.

Why is it that Democrats have such a short memory when it comes to the fact that they were the majority party in Congress which authorized the entry into Iraq??

Bubby....the WHOLE NATION AND WORLD WAS LIED TO to start the Iraq war. Starting with Powell who read the lies to the world and found out they were lies and quit the Bush cabinet. BUSH outed CIA agent and Bush Sr said that person was a traitor. Bush lied some more and started the war.

Wow Star... So Bush is an idiot, a moron, a country bumpkin, and yet he was clever enough to fool the ENTIRE world! (except you of course)

Yep... seems perfectly reasonable.

I also find it amazing how your ilk seem to forget something that david mentioned above. Slick Willy (the Teflon Don) was offered OBL on a silver platter, but it wasn't something that rated high in the polls, so he walked away from it.

Just think... Had HE taken action, some horrific events may not have happened.

Just sayin' (since you seem to be more interested in what has happened in the past, rather than what is happening now.)

He does not deserve a military salute of any kind:

I remember one news report of what obama said to the military leaders directly after he took the oath of office... "Guys I don't want to screw this up..."

Seems that obama keeps on stepping in it.

One and done seems to be so appropriate.

Fred - if any classified material was released it doesn't matter what it is because it is classified..pure and simple, like you though i am curious to find out more about this because no offense it kinda hits home for me. whether you are some knucklehead in boot camp to the SEAL on the front lines any bit of info given can be pieced together to get a bigger picture..

i do agree with with you on the last part..you are either non partisan or not

No one has to point out the poor leadership of our administration it speeks for itself FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

So Fred, you are an expert on identifying classified material? Explain

Sorry Fred, the release of any classified material regardless of the security level attached to it is an offense covered most arduously by the UCMJ and should include someone who occupies the position of Commander in Chief; and is expected by virtue of his office to be a paradigm. That also goes for the members of his staff who have displayed anything but discretion in this matter. As was pointed out earlier in this discussion, all it takes is for someone to start to connecting the dots. Do you think that our campaign against al-Qaeda will continue to succeed with grandstanding nitwits opening their yawning buccal cavities for a part of the tinseltown mystique? Get real.

All this lacks is Jane Fonda waving an AK-47.

Mike, sounds more like we need to have the New Yorker magazine republish its 2008 cover of obama and michelle dressed up mideast style brandishing AK-47's and burning the American flag.

I no longer watch jane fonda movies, especially after she proclaimed her love of communism during viet nam. She may have retracted her comment since then, but still...

RealWorld - You must have missed the article identifying who the sources worked for...

John Brennan is the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, and Denis McDonough is deputy national security adviser.

Still want to deflect by saying obama wasn't involved?

Rather inept on your part to equate a pre 911 intelligence report on a potential attack vs actual mission details. As for the CIA outing, more conjecture on reasons??