Buried Treasure: "From Bin Laden to al-Baghdadi"

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Politico Senior Legal Affairs Contributor Josh Gerstein joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on this episode of Skullduggery's "Buried Treasure." They compare and contrast the raid on Osama Bin Laden during the Obama presidency to the recent raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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0:00.0	Was there a consideration to try to take bin Laden alive or was the mission to kill him
0:06.3	on site?
0:07.3	Absolutely.
0:08.3	It was to prepare for all contingencies.
0:11.9	If we had the opportunity to take bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the
0:16.8	individuals involved were able and prepared to do that.
0:20.0	We had discussed that extensively in a number of meetings in the White House and with
0:22.8	the President.
0:24.3	The concern was that bin Laden would oppose any type of capture operation.
0:30.5	Indeed, he did.
0:31.5	It was a firefight.
0:33.2	He, therefore, was killed in that firefight.
0:36.7	And that's when the remains were removed.
0:39.4	That was then White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan describing the raid,
0:43.7	approved by President Barack Obama, that killed Osama bin Laden inside his Pakistani compound
0:49.5	late on the evening of May 1, 2011.
0:53.1	It was a dramatic moment that seemed at the time like the ultimate triumph in the war
0:56.9	on terror, one that Obama's political advisors used for maximum effect when he ran for reelection
1:03.3	the following year.
1:05.2	Only there were a few small problems with Brennan's account that night.
1:09.1	Some of the key details that he shared with reporters turned out to be false.
1:13.7	There was no firefight between the Navy seals and the leader of Al-Qaeda.
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