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August 16th, 2012
thesmithian
The president and his national security team—I’m not a political guy, but I will tell you as, as an interested observer in this—they were magnificent in how they handled it start to finish…At the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the United States that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions, that was instrumental in the planning process, because I pitched every plan to him.

Adm. William H. McRaven of the US Navy

who oversaw the [Bin Laden] raid as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command

more. and, meanwhile, there is of course this.

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