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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:57 PM
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Santorum criticizes Obama for revealing that Osama bin Laden died
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“When Osama Bin Laden was killed a lot of the intelligence community was hoping that the President would keep that close so they could exploit the information that they gained from the computer files they picked up at that residence,” he said. “But the president just couldn’t help himself, he just had to go out and take credit for it and I think as a result of that we didn’t maximize the cache of information that we gained during that mission.”

Asked by TPM whether the news would have reached the terrorists anyway given the high-profile raid in a Pakistani residential area and Al Qaeda’s internal communications, Santorum said he believed there might have been enough time to make productive gains.

“We weren’t until the president announced it,” he said. “There’s not perfect information flow in the world, as we all know, and certainly not perfect information flow out of Pakistan.”

Ari Fleischer, who served as President Bush’s press secretary, told TPM that while he believe the White House revealed too many “granular” details in its immediate account of the raid, some of which had to be retracted later, revealing the basic news that Bin Laden had died was clearly the right move.

“We should all be proud of it and you can’t hide it,” Fleischer said.

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