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Re: Bin Laden's Pictures to be released.
There's also the matter of debriefing the SEALs that were involved in the mission, corroborating the events of each one, and being able to sort out the common facts on the mission itself, as well as interrogating the detainees, which could take a while. I haven't seen a mention of how many people in total were in the compound, how many were captured or an exact number of SEALs that were deployed on the mission either, nor what the support/backup consisted of if the mission had gone south. I read some speculation that an AC 130 could have been deployed as back up on the mission - but that's just it - speculation..
And the fact that there are naturally going to be some things on the mission that are going to be redacted or kept under wraps for a number of reasons (protecting the anonymity of the SEAL team involved, sensitive information that could compromise intelligence if released to the public). Most of the stuff that's been released is speculation - fuck, even Leon Panetta, the CIA head himself was speculating that the pictures were going to be released, which probably means he's not 100% in the loop, and probably doesn't have access to all the mission information. We probably won't see the entire story for a long time, but the official story will probably take a few weeks to get released - interviewing however many people and checking the data against each other is going to take some time, as well as informing the participants of what can be talked about and what is classified.
If people want to believe that they're being lied to - let them believe what they want to believe - their own ignorance is their own bliss.
Side note - I wonder how the guy who shot bin Laden is feeling right now. Must be an incredible weight to carry around to be one of the biggest badasses and not be able to talk about it to anyone other than your squadmates.
There's also the matter of debriefing the SEALs that were involved in the mission, corroborating the events of each one, and being able to sort out the common facts on the mission itself, as well as interrogating the detainees, which could take a while. I haven't seen a mention of how many people in total were in the compound, how many were captured or an exact number of SEALs that were deployed on the mission either, nor what the support/backup consisted of if the mission had gone south. I read some speculation that an AC 130 could have been deployed as back up on the mission - but that's just it - speculation..
And the fact that there are naturally going to be some things on the mission that are going to be redacted or kept under wraps for a number of reasons (protecting the anonymity of the SEAL team involved, sensitive information that could compromise intelligence if released to the public). Most of the stuff that's been released is speculation - fuck, even Leon Panetta, the CIA head himself was speculating that the pictures were going to be released, which probably means he's not 100% in the loop, and probably doesn't have access to all the mission information. We probably won't see the entire story for a long time, but the official story will probably take a few weeks to get released - interviewing however many people and checking the data against each other is going to take some time, as well as informing the participants of what can be talked about and what is classified.
If people want to believe that they're being lied to - let them believe what they want to believe - their own ignorance is their own bliss.
Side note - I wonder how the guy who shot bin Laden is feeling right now. Must be an incredible weight to carry around to be one of the biggest badasses and not be able to talk about it to anyone other than your squadmates.
can continue. as spock says, that is not logical.
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