Nearly a year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces, President Barack Obama described the tense moments spent watching the raid from the White House Situation Room.
In an exclusive interview with Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams, the president recalled the moment when one of the helicopters used by Seal Team Six and special forces encountered problems.
“There’s silence at this point inside the room,” the president told Williams in an interview airing on NBC's Rock Center, “Inside the Situation Room,” on Wednesday, May 2 at 9pm/8 c.
The raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan led to the al-Qaeda mastermind’s death.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while glimpsing at the famous photo of her and the president’s top advisors in the Situation Room during the raid, joked that she covered her mouth like “when my husband drags me to an action movie.”
Putting the jokes aside, Clinton said that she stills feels adrenaline rushing through her body when she thinks of the night U.S. forces killed bin Laden.
“What it conjures up is all of the emotions that were running through my and every other person in that small group,” Clinton told Williams. “It was just an extraordinary experience and a great privilege to be part of.”
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Yes the US should be very proud of the fact that they fund, train, recruit and use people until we are done with them and then we turn our backs and kill them. What hypocracy!!
Mr. Gates; learn how to spell you terrorist loving @!$%#.
I like your opinion...I feel the same way,regardless of who the National Leader is......America has fallen...has fallen...........
No it hasn't your trippin Ras! We took out Bin Laden, brought the troops back, don't rotget about cash for clunkers, and the tax incentives last year, We brought the troops out of Iraq, We stabilized the biggest market crash since 1929 (That's the Great depression if you don't know your US History), There is a leap in unemployment and consumer spending. yada yada yada. I can go on for days. Please know what your talking about before you start with this the sky is falling crapola. Even the gas prices are dropping (That's important for us working folks). Holla Back
I agree with Gates and I don't believe they really got him when they say they did. I think it was all political BULL
How do you liars sleep at night? People who actually use their brains KNOW bin Laden died in 12/01. You must think people are blind to not know that the doppelgangers picked as Bin Laden look alike didn't really look like the 1st Bin Laden paraded as the patsy for the Bush Cheney et al 911 WTC demolitions.
The WTC towers were gutted and planted with military grade explosives obtained at the Philadelphia Naval Business Center by Bush cousins' demolition company. There are no journalists left in this country, only bootlickers. I wonder how much money under the table Williams is taking to push this BIN LADEN HOAX. Every Network & media outlet that pushes the 911 lies and the BIN LADEN DEATH HOAX should be tried for treason. Everyone knows the regime in the White House are total LIARS.
Sad. Watch Fox news much?
I would have like to have been there ! what a blessing ! you can't keep him quiet now you would thing he has a complex or bad picture of himself ! like he has something to worry about.
trying to take credit for what others have done ! selfcentered or what !
like a kid with more candy hey look how much i have !! nanana
you would think he is trying to get reelected or something !
it is hard for me to do, but he makes me want to upchuck ! even if i just had a good steak !
it is a another day in history period. let's move on to a new chapter !
It was a sad day for Republicans....Bush had 8 years to find and take care of him...but you know...family ties and all that....oh well...choke on that steak next time instead of just recycling it! Thanks!
Sure Richard. Just thinking what your tune would be had the mission failed. You just can't handle it, can you?
If they had messed it all up and not get him, Obama would have blamed Bush for that too...
It was the fault of another President and Clinton never got him either....and he had 8 years too. You don't call ahead and ask if it will be OK to try to bomb him like Clinton did. Osama bin Laden had a couple days warning that he was going to send a Cruise missile to kill him. Gee do you think he wasn't going to leave that camp, like everyone else did? The Navy seals got bin Laden, not Obama! It was just luck that this guy was in office when they caught up with him.
There were no Navy Seals. There was no operation. Pakistanis said nothing happened. on May 1, 2011. There was no rush in Pakistan. The citizens of the world were punked again by the Bin Laden occultist illusion. The government occultists, kabbalists, masons & witches planned this HOAX for the demonic power evoked by Satanic Festival of BELTANE. The BELTANE ritual is the only ritual done in the light of day.
David Icke was in Rome on May 1, 2011. He gave a tour of Knights of Malta compound, pagan representations. The U.S. govt are pagans, occultists. What do you think these pagans do behind closed doors. Open your eyes people, they are luciferians.
http://www.tryskelion.com/tryskelion/beltfaq.htm
You mean the sham that followed with "take our word for it, he's already been buried at sea"?
It's a captivating tale though.
This was one of the best days ever, too bad Odumba wants to take credit for the work of those on the ground. He was just sitting in the chair when it happened and he knew there was no way he could have done anything other than give the green light. It should be open season on every terrorist scum bucket out there.
Yeah, like any President wouldn't take credit for it....HA! IF a Republican had been president, we wouldn't hear the END of it PERIOD. This last year would have been full of self-glorified Republicans day after day after day about the "role" they played.....hypocrites! lol!
Actually, Bush hunted down and brought the ruthless Saddam Hussein to justice. Bush hunted and killed Hussein's two insane sons. Bush kicked out the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban government of Afghanistan.
But Bush never tried to take all the glory for himself personally. He gave the credit to the brave soldiers who actually accomplished those things.
Why was it are responsibility to overthrow the government of Iraq ? Bushes war cost the lives of over 5000 American soldiers. Will we ever know how many Iraq citizens was killed by are actions? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and there was no threat of weapons of mass destruction. In a strange way, Saddam Hussein kept Iran in check, and with his killing the middle-east became more unstable. Yes, President Bush and Darth Chaney should be charged with war crimes, at least Bush will rank at the bottom of the list of Presidents. Bet his Dad is ashamed...
This plan to role out a dead Bin Laden who had been iced since 12/01 was supposed to be used by Bush to boost his presidential ratings. Bush didn't need it, so Obama used the plan to boost his pitiful popularity. Problem is that so many people know that Bin Laden was already dead, we became outraged. Not only was Bin Laden's death announced in 12/01 on CNN, it was in a number of newspapers. Real people with real brains already knew Bin Laden was dead. If Obama was any kind of President, he would have known that Bin Laden's death was already reported.
OBAMA and all the News readers are pathetic liars.
It's time to investigate did what on 911. It was a MEGA RITUAL orchestrated & planned by Occultists, kabbalists-zionists, mason & witches. Barbara Bush & Ann Cappelletti are illegitimate daughters of Aleister Crowley, consceived to be the ANTICHRIST with different women. Ann's mother a 20 yr old Sicilian girl lured to Thelema for sex magick w Crowley in 1923. Pauline Pierce was Crowley's sex assistant in Paris for his Eroto Comatose Lucidity sex stage act.
Odumbo is a moron.
If he is, he took lessons from Bush....
Hm.. if Obama is a moron and Bush has a fraction of Obama's intelligence, then what do you call Bush ?.... I think a new dictionary entry should be created for that lower level of intelligence who is nonetheless capable of attracting similarly lower level followers. Call it "bushism" ?.. "repugs"? "Bushpugs"?
All these intelligent (shoe size=I.Q.) people who do nothing other than try to out do each other with thier really clever name calling makes me realize why the country is in the shape it's in and why it has no hope of ever recovering.
Friends for me this is not about being fans of the Clinton's. This is about the realty that right now is the actual mood in this country. We can be real about it or we can be like the conservatives in 08 and stick to Sarah Palin wishful thinking plan only in our case its Barack Obama wishful thinking plan. How many states have put laws on the books about abortion, gays, immigration, faith in government, which are all hurting civil rights and are even re-defining the first amendment? How many times has faith crossed the line into civil laws in the states? More of these kinds of laws have been done SINCE Obama's election then was done BEFORE his election. This is because the Obama network can only focusing on the Federal offices. They do not have a network in place to be able to do anything else. That takes decades of hard work to create such a network and none in the Obama camp have done that. I am looking down the road at the next 4 years of across the board government in my country and going OH MY unless we find a solution we are going to see even worse laws get passed until they will be strong enough to be done on a national level. The Clinton's have that network in place now with three Presidential campaigns behind them and decades of hard work but we need a rally point that will help all those state candidates. If Hillary announced, overnight you would see endorsements going back and forth for key governorship's, state legislatures and other local and federal offices. We could avert a red state country and turn it into a blue states country. This en-turn would even encourage the Republican Party leadership to abandon the tea party and tamper down the Christian Right. They want to so bad even now but the silent majority has not shown them cause to. Many are saying even now that Berry Goldwater was right about these people taking over our party. If we wait until 2016 there will be no shot for any of us including Hillary Clinton! No matter if Mitt or Obama is elected it turns out the same on state level elections. So for me this is about stopping a teavanglist take over not a Hillary Clinton fan club or bitter still about 08 things. If there were an Obama network or another person network who could do what the Clintons could do in stopping that take over I would be writing for them. No one else has done the hard work over decades like the Clintons. I can’t think of another name besides Hillary Clinton that can give us what we absolutely must have right now to stop these people. If you can give me a better name I am all ears! The reality mood of this country says Barack Obama can't get it done, heck he will be lucky to just get himself re-elected let alone help anyone else. This is not a time to chill Hillary. Those laws are coming! That is unless we all find the courage do what it takes to harness the silent majority of the country for actionable results that can keep those laws from being presented
righties crack me up saying heres Obama bringing up bin laden again :news flash it's the 1 yr anniversary of ridding the world of evil usually 1yr anniverseries are talked about especially one of great signifigence if bush would have gotten laden righties would have had him added to Mt Rushmore unpaid for of course
sheeesh
Re pubic ans eat your hearts out! Your crosseyed dumbass president couldn't get the job done!
I don't think he was killed a year ago. More like 4 to 5 yrs. ago. Why is it that the American people never had the pleasure of proof that they killed him? They dumped him in the ocean (or someone else) and did it as fast as they could. Sorry, not buying this story.
I LOVE the political comments in this thread and demonstrates what's wrong with America today. "Republicans eat your heart out!" "Odumbo takes all the credit!"
Fact is, this was a GREAT day for Americans all around. Republican, Democrat, our friends who sit in the middle of the two parties which are probably the ONLY correct ones in this messed up politically divided nation.
Back to my intended comment... Bin Laden had a hand in killing 344 of my fellow fire fighters. I hope he rots in hell. Even if he was killed while the country was lead by a President I don't personally like, I have to tip my hat to Obama for getting it done. Well done sir, people in the white house, and the people on the ground that does the fighting. That was a great day.
Hilarious. The one gold star on Obama's refrigerator and the media can't stop gushing over it.
As if the decision to go after Osama was difficult or that Obama played any vital role in the years of intelligence work that went into discovering his location. Obama has been in full campaign mode since the begining of the year, jet setting accross the country at taxpayer expense, doing nothing but self promotion. Now with the anniversary of his(he had nothing to do with) only accomplishment, he and his campaign are going to use it.
I can't believe that these morons who condemn the President are allowed to vote. All Presidents take credit for these sort of actions. Truman took credit for the A-Bomb although he didn't fly the mission. This is just the way it works. They also take the blame when things go wrong like Bush should have when he allowed terrorists to attack us on 9/11. Do you kind of get it now?
Craig Bell-2542236:
Just how did G W Bush allow the attacks of 9/11/01?
I was in Arizona about 6 months ago and saw Bin Laden and a couple of his friends they had opened up a snake petting zoo, they were sitting outside a trailor drinking beers , when I went to take a picture they all covered up with the towel things !!!
Very interesting article about the dealings within the White House leading up to the raid:
Not allowed to post links? Too bad.
This was perhaps the biggest blunder in the past 50 years! The USA arm forces had been watching Osama bin Landen for several years since about Y2003. Studying his communications, his orders, methods of operations, and his network. B H Obama decides to pull his Poll Rating up after the horrible unemployment reports from Y2010 and 2011.
Then to make matters worse, his Administration informs the entire World in detail how the USA arm forces achieved their mission. Told the World of the intelligence they gathered. About a month later, 30 USA Navy Seals where targeted and killed. Had bin Landen not been killed and his network exposed, that would have NOT happen. One dead USA Navy Seal is worth far more than one dead Osama bin Landen. Now the bin Landen network is in the wind and the tracking must start all over once again. I can state 100% that the leaders of the arm forces and CIA were totality against this mission. B H Obama wanted his glory and his increase in the Polls.
This is nothing to take pride in but, rather shame of the level of stupidity.
Resurrecting this a year later says a lot! It says that the the Democrats feel that agreeing to target bin Ladin was the absolute highest point in Obama's presidency. It says that they are desperate to deflect attention from the abysmal state the economy is in. And it says that they are seriously worried about Obama's chances in the coming election.
If MSNBC's poll figures are to be believed, last March was the highest Obama's Voter Confidence Index has been in the past 2 1/2 years at negative 2%. The last time it was in positive territory was October 2009. They can't go back to that time frame though because the very policies that made him popular then, turned out to be failures later.
a scam. Bin Ladin died of natural causes years before this staged event. Numerous credible witnesses. Another hoax on the American people. Remember Kennedy. Tell a lie, tell one big enough, and tell it often, people will believe. Where's the proof? An Arab body at the bottom of the ocean? A coulpe of pics of a dead Muslim ? gullible people will believe anything nowadays. Anything deemed in defense of National Security can be made up, and military cannot divulge it. America is living a Lie.
I agree with you R.A.W. I have several friends that were in the military years ago and they have all stated that Bin Ladin died. You can't live in a cave on dialysis for very long before the kidney's give out and that's what happened. Our gov't is covering more up and Obummmmbummmm is taking the credit for something he had nothing to do with.
So true. Unfortunately we have a Dumbed-Down America, and many cannot think intelligently and rationally anymore. Just like the Birth Certificate, Social Security Numbers, and Selective Service info, a SCAM, ALL B.S. Where there's this much smoke, there's always fire, except in Obama's-Quisling World.
R.A.W.
Having you tell me that I'M "gullible" is like having Arnold Schwartzenegger tell me that I need to improve my English!
You would have to study a year to be upgraded to MORON!
Just think, if Obama had been president on 9-11 we would all be muslim now. Instead the previous president set in motion what finally allowed bin laden to be found and now Obama can take all the credit for getting him.
didnt the CIA already confirm a year ago that there was a blackout at the time in the situation room, and there was no possible way they could have watched the raid live!!! that photo has already been confirmed as staged!!!
The majority of Americans know we have an intelligent, thoughtful, and fearless President, who brought the right man to justice. President Obama deserves a lot of credit and should easily win reelection. This is a great story Brian Williams. I can't wait to see your show on May 2.
Duncan-4036037:
Thank you for the humor - I cannot stop laughing. Funny stuff!!!
Well seal team 6 didn't get its orders from Mitt or anyone but the commander and chief (President) who if you can read gave the order
Please, don't be so gullible to buy this cowards LIES.
FACT: The CIA admitted there was NO LIVE FOOTAGE of the raid. So whatever Obama is saying is outright LIES.
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FACT: Osama's body was dumped in the ocean within 24 hours of finding him. This is the most ridiculous part of this whole story. So convenient for them!
After spending trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, and over a decade to find the most wanted man in the world THEY DUMP HIS BODY IN THE OCEAN???
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FACT: The Pentagon released a footage of Osama in his compound which looks like a complete FRAUD.
See for yourself:
FACT: "Citing the law, The Associated Press asked for files about the raid in more than 20 separate requests, mostly submitted the day after bin Laden's death. The Pentagon told the AP this month it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden's body. The Pentagon also said it could not find any images of bin Laden's body on the Navy aircraft carrier where the al-Qaida leader's body was taken.
The Pentagon said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden's body if he were killed. The Defense Department said it searched files at the Pentagon, U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., and the Navy command in San Diego that controls the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier used in the mission."
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Soooooo true !!!! Correct me if I'm wrong, but Seal Team 6 almost ALWAYS wears Live recording Video Cameras on their Helmets, so where is the Video??? I guess it died too, when the SEALS were murdered. Another "coincidence", right ? Isn't it just F*#k^*g AMAZING.... Sha-ZAMM !!!!
The Pentagon is the Devil's Playground.
Unfortunately MSNBC does not allow me to post sources. However I assure you, you can verify ALL of the information above with mainstream media news reports