Obama White House Spin Clarifies the Clarifications -- Incompetence Rules

We have noted through this whole White House debacle that the British papers along with American bloggers have been far out in front of all the clarifications but this one from the London Telegraph says it all.

Osama bin Laden: that White House clarification in full
By Damian Thompson
May 4, 2011

This just in from an exclusive source…

In an earlier briefing, we may have given the impression that Osama bin Laden was armed when we stormed his compound. We meant, of course, that he was unarmed. Moreover, we would like to clarify that when we said he resisted arrest, that was merely a figure of speech. In addition, we would like to make a small correction to our report that bin Laden used his wife as a human shield; he did not, in fact, use his wife as a shield. Earlier statements that she was killed were, of course, a misunderstanding. She was not killed; that was another lady. Furthermore, we would like to remove any doubt over our claim that we have decided to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden’s body by confirming that we shall not be releasing any pictures of the body. We trust that this clears up any confusion.

Source: London Telegraph

This excerpt from Pamela Geller sends shivers up your spine when you realize that the United States may have been on the verge of losing Bin Laden again as all signs pointed to his leaving the house most likely for the mountains. Obama dithering almost cost us the death of Bin Laden -- thanks to CIA Director Leon Panetta it didn't as he was not afraid to order the mission to proceed.

It is disturbing that the safe-house was discovered last August and that we risked losing OBL over the course of the past nine months. The courier's name who led to Bin Laden through Bush's CIA interrogations was leaked in the latest WIKILEAKS dump. So it was only a matter of time.

"Osama bin Laden had 500 Euros in cash and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed, CBS News has confirmed." It was a miracle we got there in time.

Atlas Shrugs

Found one of the best details of the continous White House spin clarifying the clarifications that happened over a 3-day period at Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs site. All this spin continues to lend credibility that Obama was not the one who ordered the SEAL Teams to find and kill Bin Laden. As head of the CIA, Panetta was in the perfect position to order the mission. Would be an educated guess that the true details of what happened that Sunday night won't be revealed for sometime as it would totally blow a hole in the Obama and White House spin.

Obama's Got More 'Splainin' to Do
May 5, 2011

In the aftermath of the OBL kill, it becomes increasingly clear that the only ones who got it right were the righteous, our military heroes. Leave it to the Obama administration to destroy a golden, historic moment once the kill was made. Perhaps this is why he was silent at his exploitative visit to Ground Zero earlier today. Because every time he (and members of his mafia like Brennan) open their pie hole, they stick their foot in it.

How bad did the morphing OBL naarative get? So bad that the White House said: We Won't Release Any More Operational Details About OBL Killing

After two days of administration officials offering up conflicting details and accounts of the intense U.S. assault-team raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and his subsequent killing, the White House has completely shut down press attempts to get a full accounting of what transpired.[...]

Carney repeatedly refused to answer basic operational questions about the sequence of events that occurred inside the compound Sunday night, at times appearing petulant when reporters persisted. [...]

The Obama Administration’s cloud of confusion explained Bookworm

Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it’s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid. Here’s jj’s great summary:

Okay, what do we have here:

1) There was a firefight.
2) There was no firefight.
3) Bin Laden was “resisting.”
4) Bin Laden wasn’t armed. (Makes the concept of “resisting” interesting.)
5) He used his wife as a shield.
6) His wife was killed too.
7) He didn’t use his wife as a shield. She ran at a SEAL who shot her in the leg, but she’s fine.
8 ) Some other woman — the maid? — was used as a shield. By somebody. Downstairs.
9) That other woman — downstairs — was killed.
10) Maybe not. She was killed unless she wasn’t — and who was she, anyway?
11) Bin Laden’s son was killed.
12) Unless it was some other guy.
13) Bin Laden’s daughter saw him get killed. She’s undoubtedly traumatized, poor dear.
14) They were going to capture Bin Laden until the problem with the helicopter, which was:

A) It had mechanical trouble
B) It did a hard landing
C) It crashed
D) It clipped a wall with a tail rotor, effectively a crash

15.) They were never going to try to capture him; it was always a kill mission.
16.) No, it wasn’t.
17) The chopper blew up.
18) The SEALs blew it up.
19.) Panetta said yesterday the world needed proof and the photo would be released.
20.) Obama said today in an interview he taped with Steve Kroft for “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday that it won’t be released. It’s too gruesome, would offend Muslim sensibilities (something he worries about a lot — I personally do not give a warm fart on a wet Wednesday about Muslim sensibilities), and how would Americans feel if Muslims released pictures of dead Americans?
21.) Kroft — who’s not a total idiot — pointed out that ever since “Black Hawk Down” days, Muslims have been doing precisely that, filming American bodies being dragged through the streets, filming Daniel Pearl’s head being cut off, filming any and everything.
22) Obama gets pissed at CBS, the tape gets cleaned up, that question disappears. (Inside info.)
23.) We got a “treasure trove” of stuff from hard drives, etc.
24.) There were no phone lines, and no internet access at the “mansion,” they didn’t even have TV — what “treasure trove?”
25.) There is obviously in the pictures of the place a large satellite dish. I guess they used it for making salads.
26.) And now, just today: apparently the idea was to capture him, but only if he was naked. There was a suspicion he might be wearing a suicide bomber type explosive vest, or belt. So if he’s not naked and you can’t see if he has a vest on or not – shoot him.

The idiot Carney — they actually managed to find someone who makes Gibbs look good — is currently twisting himself into knots trying to explain why the photograph that the whole world was expecting isn’t going to be released. (Obviously the thing to do is get Trump on the case, he’ll force Obama to release it.)

The military did great, the administration — or whatever that bunch is, kind of like “The Little Rascals” — have managed to turn it into spaghetti. The story has changed so many times in the course of a mere three days it’s a joke — the world would be better off if Panetta had left the little shitwit on the golf course.

Source: Atlas Shrugs

The latest spin of the AK-47 nearby Bin Laden but no guns were found except on one bodyguard can be added to the list along with Navy SEALS thought he was reaching for a weapon but Bin Laden was in a fog himself. Now this incompetent White House team is using the SEALS as who made the decision to shoot?

The photographs on the internet can also be added to the 'Fog of War.' There are so many photographs alleging to be the compound that it makes your head swim. We love the ones from ABC that show the oval windows where the shooting place up the stairs and then look at the outside of the compound and the home with three floors has no oval windows but why let a little detail like that discourage ABC from running with the pictures. There is a brick wall no there is a concrete wall with concertina wire not it is brick beside an alley, etc. They cannot even get the wall right so why are we surprised at anything else out of the media not to mention the White House who has been rewriting the script.

The chopper story keeps morhping as well -- they cannot even get the number right -- went from 4 to 2 back to 4 with one down and then to 2 plus they had to fly in a Chinook. One picture has the backyard all burnt and kind of looks like a chopper was set afire after being blown up but there is no hole in the fence and no hole in the ground if it was exploded. But wait a few days later the "quick growing grass" now covers up the burnt area. ABC seems to be in full cover mode for Obama which makes us wonder why.

We cannot even find out the truth from this media when it is obvious that Obama doesn't have the backbone to order a kill team into action. Sad day for America that a person like Obama can be elected President who is not a 'natural' born citizen and the media are not up in arms. What if all of this comedy central on Bin Laden had happened with President Bush. Congress would have been calling for his impeachment but when it comes to Obama crickets are chirping.