{"id":9184,"date":"2011-05-05T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2011-05-05T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:36:55","slug":"confused-about-the-details-of-the-bin-laden-raid-sos-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/confused-about-the-details-of-the-bin-laden-raid-sos-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused about the details of the Bin Laden raid? So&#8217;s the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2011\/05\/04\/the-obama-administrations-cloud-of-confusion-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> which is a systematic attempt to draw together all the information\/misinformation\/disinformation about the Abbotabad raid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good.  The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it\u2019s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid.  Here\u2019s jj\u2019s great summary:<\/p>\n<p><em>Okay, what do we have here:<\/p>\n<p>1) There was a firefight.<br \/>\n2) There was no firefight.<br \/>\n3) Bin Laden was \u201cresisting.\u201d<br \/>\n4) Bin Laden wasn\u2019t armed.  (Makes the concept of \u201cresisting\u201d interesting.)<br \/>\n[4.a) And the newest one: the SEALS thought bin Laden was reaching for a weapon.]<br \/>\n5) He used his wife as a shield.<br \/>\n6) His wife was killed too.<br \/>\n7) He didn\u2019t use his wife as a shield.  She ran at a SEAL who shot her in the leg, but she\u2019s fine.<br \/>\n8 ) Some other woman &mdash; the maid? &mdash; was used as a shield.  By somebody.  Downstairs.<br \/>\n9) That other woman &mdash; downstairs &mdash; was killed.<br \/>\n10) Maybe not.  She was killed unless she wasn\u2019t &mdash; and who was she, anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s less than half the list.<\/p>\n<p>Stay on message? They&#8217;d have to have agreed on what the actual message is first.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the original post, which has been updated a few times:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When people say \u201csomething is wrong here,\u201d they\u2019re sort of right.  The \u201c<em>here<\/em>\u201d in which the wrongness resides isn\u2019t this specific news story.  Instead, it\u2019s an overarching pathology that we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>That is, the SEALS did what they did.  What\u2019s driving everyone bonkers is that this administration is incapable of being straightforward.  Serpentine deceit is its MO, regardless of the topic, whether birth certificates, health care debates, or sanctioned assassinations.  Everything is wrapped in a web of lies and confusion because of the paranoia, personality disorders, narcissism, and sociopathy that walk the White House halls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon sent me this link which is a systematic attempt to draw together all the information\/misinformation\/disinformation about the Abbotabad raid: Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it\u2019s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,28,5,13],"tags":[387,158,127,86,397,51],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-media","category-military","category-usa","tag-alqaeda","tag-barackobama","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-criticism","tag-pakistan","tag-pr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}