heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: Kirata Well let's go with that. If "the plan had been under consideration since November 7, and officials under the administration of Barack Obama reviewed and approved it January 6," then the failures in intelligence and planning would seem to devolve upon the Obama administration, leaving Trump guilty at worst of relying on the previous administration's assessment. One might also wonder if these unnamed "officials" cited by Reuters expressed their view prior to the raid, and whether it was considered to have merit by the military entities charged with carrying out the plan. Oh look you put quotes around "officials"... I guess this is why Trump resonates with you so-- because he also likes to pretend that anything that threatens his team's reputation is fake. And the reason Obama held off on approval is because he thought they needed to collect more intelligence. I'm going to say that he probably reached this conclusion after actually talking to people who knew about the operation and carefully weighing the options they presented. This is what intelligent, competent people do. So how much intelligence collecting do you think Trump did before he signed off on it? How many military officials do you think he consulted? I mean, considering how he's spent the whole week ruining people's lives with executive orders, tweeting his bullshit, picking cabinet members, getting angry at the media, threatening Australia and Mexico, sanctioning Iran, etc...
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