Esquire feature on SEAL well done, but omitted Biden’s “leak”

(Photo: Navy SEALs/U.S. Government)If a vice president discloses sensitive national security information in a public speech, should we acknowledge it as a “leak”?

Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ft. Campbell (Ky.) and gave a speech on May 6, 2011. Biden’s tongue often runs away with his brain and that particular day was a perfect opportunity.

Four days after one of the most sensitive operations in the war on terror, the vice president told the troops and the world exactly who took down Osama bin Laden; Biden used a personal story about his granddaughter to “leak” the information.

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Expert on al Qaeda: Brennan misleads Americans on “Islamist threat”

Former head of the bin Laden unit for the CIA, Michael Scheuer wrote the definitive biography on the terrorist mastermind. (Photo: Book Cover, Non-Intervention website)If Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush had followed Michael Scheuer’s recommendations, Sept. 11, 2001 might have been just another sunny day in the U.S.

Neither president paid heed to the head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, and 11 opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden were denied.

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As publisher Assange seeks asylum, White House Leakers go unpunished

Vice President Joe Biden blurted details about the bin Laden operation. (Screen snip from White House video)Whether you agree with what Wikileaks’ Julian Assange did is not relevant to the question of whether the publisher broke laws by making sensitive information about some governments public.

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Why did Obama change his mind on “cruel and inhuman” treatment?

Harold Koh, with the State Dept., said at a 2010 press conference "cruel and inhuman" treatment would not be used "going forward." Not a single media personality has asked Koh or Obama to explain how killing someone is not a painful process. (Photo from U.S. Government)President Barack Obama opened the door on my question by making a campaign statement based on thin air, a statement that contradicts his long running criticism of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques.

The Weekly Standard reported comments by Obama:

"I'd just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and to take out bin Laden,’  Obama said, obviously taking a shot at Romney. ‘I assume that people meant what they said when they said it. And that's been at least my practice. I said that I would go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him--and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it.’"

The first question I have for Obama is why did we kill Osama bin Laden? Imagine the wealth of information we might have extracted from him. I do realize we have his diary (allegedly). It seems to me the team that took out bin Laden, if given the option, might have brought him out alive.

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