Ahh…so you mean this is yet another of Obama’s “Let me be clear” moments?  Boy, that Obama..he sure has a big stick!

Only the memo doesn’t show a gutsy call. It doesn’t show a president willing to take the blame for a mission gone wrong. It shows a CYA maneuver by the White House.

The memo puts all control in the hands of Admiral McRaven – the “timing, operational decision making and control” are all up to McRaven. So the notion that Obama and his team were walking through every stage of the operation is incorrect. The hero here was McRaven, not Obama. And had the mission gone wrong, McRaven surely would have been thrown under the bus.

via What ‘Gutsy Call’?: CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission.