02-24-2017, 01:27 AM
(02-22-2017, 10:50 AM)michaelsean Wrote: If you have an operation, and you plan a specific day, that doesn't make every day in between a no go. The implication being that Obama put a no go because there was a problem with the plan.
When we were told it was a protest that went bad over that movie.
Whoa! Obama didn't plan a "specific day." That is not possible in the case of a raid on people who may be traveling frequently in the region. At least 48 hours of fresh intel prior to any go day would be required.
In fact, this was not even a specific, date-ready raid. It was a general project discussed and then passed on to the Trump administration to be given the usual due consideration following intel protocols and NSC deliberation. No go means Obama thought the risks--especially to our relation to the Yemeni government--could not be assessed properly in a few weeks. (Obama's in-house rule for spec ops was Measure twice and cut once.) So it was up to the Trump NSC team to decide whether raids of this type should occur at all--after due deliberation.
Did Trump gave the ok over dinner and tweet during the raid, as former NSC member Colin Kahl claims?--apparently he was not in the situation room following events in real time. Trump dined, people died?
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