At
the urging of Valerie Jarrett, Barack
Obama canceled the
operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions
before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according
to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21. The Daily
Caller has seen a portion of the chapter in which the stunning
revelation appears.
In ”Leading
From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for
Him,“ Richard
Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January
2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close
adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time,
according to the book.
Miniter,
a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed
source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge
of the operation and its planning.
Obama
administration officials also said after the raid that the president
had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day
before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his
fourth moment of indecision. At the time, the White House blamed the
delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound
in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
But
when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air
Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal
conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.
“President
Obama’s greatest success was actually his greatest failure,”
Miniter told The Daily Caller Friday. ”Leading
From Behind,“ he
said, traces the arc of six key Obama administration decisions, and
shows how the president made them — and, often, failed to make
them.
Another
chapter, he told The DC, concerns the push to pass the Affordable
Care Act. The president, Miniter said, was less interested than
then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in passing his own signature
legislative achievement.
Osama
bin Laden steered the global operations of the al-Qaida terror
network until his death last year at the hands of the U.S.
Navy’s SEAL Team Six. The president and his surrogates have made
the terrorist leader’s death a focal point in Obama’s re-election
campaign, painting Obama as a decisive leader who took down America’s
greatest mortal enemy." David Martosko, Daily Caller
WHO IS RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE?
MAYBE JARRETT SHOULD BE AT THE DEBATES RATHER THAN OBAMA!
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