President Obama played cards during the bin Laden raid says his longtime aide Reggie Love

The Daily Mail [UK]
14 August 2013

President Obama’s longtime aide Reggie Love says he and the president played cards during part of the raid in Pakistan that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

‘Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, “I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing,”‘ Love recalled of the May 2011 raid during a forum hosted by the D.C.-based Artists & Athletes Alliance in Los Angeles last month.

He said that he and the president, along with White House photographer Pete Souza and Obama aide Marvin Nicholson, gathered in the private dining room to play a couple rounds of cards…

 

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CAJ note: Watch this video while you can. One of the videos at The Daily Mail has already been removed from YouTube by the user.



 

Update: Reggie Love on Bin Laden Raid: Obama Didn’t Want to ‘Watch This Entire Thing’

…Ryan Zinke, former Commander at SEAL Team Six and Chairman of Special Operations for America, told Breitbart News that “while America’s best risked their lives to take out the world’s most notorious terrorist, the President chose to play cards. Afterwards, he cynically took credit for directing the operation for political gain. One can only wonder what our Commander-in-Chief was doing the night of the Benghazi attacks.”…

 

 

Update 2: The Blaze writes about the video being removed from YouTube and has a copy on site.

 

 

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