[Alex3917]

You've apparently forgotten all about that whole Osama Bin Laden thing. You know, the person who Clinton sent a team to kill even though he was never charged with any crime. There's even a video of Clinton watching his illegal assassination.

[IIAOPSW]

0. Obama ordered that. Not Hillary.

1. That's not a drone strike.

2. That's not an assassination mission. OBL was more valuable alive than dead.

3. Islamibad isn't London and the UK isn't Pakistan. Hard power solutions are for countries that can't control their own airspace and can't/won't be able to capture the person of interest with their own legal/security apparatus. Name one drone strike outside the middle East.

4. You are comparing the most notorious terrorist in world history to a journalistic nuisance. The US would have to be retarded to pursue Assange to the same severity as they pursued OBL.

[kahirsch]

Bin Laden was indicted in 1998 for multiple capital crimes. His co-conspirators were convicted.

The Taliban refused to extradite bin Laden and the UN Security Council responded with sanctions (e.g. Security Council resolution 1267).

[dingaling]

There was no compulsion to comply since the charges were filed ( under seal ) in New York state and there was no extradition agreement with Afghanistan.

Despite that the Taliban had been in negotiation since 1998 and repeatedly offered to hand Bin Laden over to a third country.

SCR1267 did not authorise military action.

Everything you have written is true, yet misleading.

[kahirsch]

I didn't mean to imply that SCR1267 authorized military action and I don't think I did.

The Taliban were obliged by SCR1267 to turn over bin Laden. If they had intended to turn over bin Laden to a third country, they would have.

[jacobush]

Clinton?

[monocasa]

Yep. She certainly appears to be there.

https://businessinsider.com/situation-room-bin-laden-2016-5

[hnmonkey]

Very interesting. Because she was in the room that meant she sent the team to kill Bin Laden?

By your logic and the parent poster's logic ~13 people aside from the President and the laptops and coffee cups were also just as responsible for sending the team to kill him.

[monocasa]

Are you really questioning the idea that the Secretary of State had a hand in approving a CIA-led assassination mission when there's literally pictures of her watching it go down?

[hnmonkey]

I never said that I questioned that in the slightest. Not sure where you get that at all.

I did however basically say that she did not send the team to get him. That's what a President signs off on and military leaders plan.

[monocasa]

>> Very interesting. Because she was in the room that meant she sent the team to kill Bin Laden?

> I never said that I questioned that in the slightest. Not sure where you get that at all.

You literally just questioned that.

And it was a CIA-led, ie. civilian led, operation, not a military-led one.

[hnmonkey]

You edited your comment to change what you said. You originally did not say that she had a 'hand in approving'. Why would you change it to make it seem like you were talking about something else that you didn't originally say?