Billy Mitchell
The King of Kong
Yet another "inside the decision to kill bin Laden" article. Well written, and with some new details I hadn't heard before.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/11/inside-osama-bin-laden-assassination-plot?src=longreads&buffer_share=a6b26&utm_source=buffer
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/11/inside-osama-bin-laden-assassination-plot?src=longreads&buffer_share=a6b26&utm_source=buffer
“Mr. President,” [Michael Morell, the head of the CIA bin Laden team] said, “if we had a human source who had told us directly that bin Laden was living in that compound, I still wouldn’t be above 60 percent.” Morell said he had spent a lot of time on both questions, W.M.D. and Abbottabad. He had seen no fewer than 13 analytical drafts on the former and at least as many on the latter. “And I’m telling you, the case for W.M.D. wasn’t just stronger—it was much stronger.”