Perhaps in part due to President Obama's decision to open and close last week's State of the Union address with an acknowledgement of the Navy SEALs who executed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Abbottabad raid (or more precisely, the fallout from the raid) is suddenly generating a new set of controversies.
In the Wall Street Journal today, recently retired SEAL Leif Babin argues that President Obama is wrongfully exploiting the Navy SEALs for political gain, and worse, endangering Special Operations Forces by revealing operational details of the raid.
Meanwhile, Defense Department spokesmen are "clarifying" Secretary Panetta's remarks to 60 Minutes regarding Pakistani awareness of bin Laden's residence in Abbottabad.
And over at Blackfive, "Uncle Jimbo" claims Kill Bin Laden novelist John Weisman told him the White House delayed executing the Abbottabad raid while polling about the operation was conducted. This would be very bad, of course, although it should be noted this is unattributed hearsay.
I would expect that if the Obama campaign really does intend to make bin Laden's killing central to their case for re-election, we'll inevitably see more of these controversies over the next nine months. Ugh.
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