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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: EC on July 08, 2013, 11:42:19 am
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Potential new scandal.
Via AP: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-move-keeps-bin-laden-records-shadows
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.
The secret move, described briefly in a draft report by the Pentagon's inspector general, set off no alarms within the Obama administration even though it appears to have sidestepped federal rules and perhaps also the Freedom of Information Act.
An acknowledgement by Adm. William McRaven of his actions was quietly removed from the final version of an inspector general's report published weeks ago. A spokesman for the admiral declined to comment. The CIA, noting that the bin Laden mission was overseen by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta before he became defense secretary, said that the SEALs were effectively assigned to work temporarily for the CIA, which has presidential authority to conduct covert operations.
"Documents related to the raid were handled in a manner consistent with the fact that the operation was conducted under the direction of the CIA director," agency spokesman Preston Golson said in an emailed statement. "Records of a CIA operation such as the (bin Laden) raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA Director, are CIA records."
Golson said it is "absolutely false" that records were moved to the CIA to avoid the legal requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.
The records transfer was part of an effort by McRaven to protect the names of the personnel involved in the raid, according to the inspector general's draft report.
But secretly moving the records allowed the Pentagon to tell The Associated Press that it couldn't find any documents inside the Defense Department that AP had requested more than two years ago, and could represent a new strategy for the U.S. government to shield even its most sensitive activities from public scrutiny.
More at link.
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I still don't think we've been told the truth about the "killing of Bin Laden". The whole thing just doesn't ring true to me.
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If I wasn't sure about this bin laden killing, this makes me really wonder. :whistle:
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I still don't think we've been told the truth about the "killing of Bin Laden". The whole thing just doesn't ring true to me.
We cannot believe anything from these people
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We cannot believe anything from these people
Now I wonder who the high profile person was that the Seals killed? The Seals have been taken out. Notice how the women who allegedly were in the compound have not been heard from since? Pakistan even destroyed the compound. Who finally got the tail section of that heli that crashed? Sorry I digressed didn't I? :whistle:
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All valid observations and questions