Osama bin Laden - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Osama bin Laden Index / People Transcripts Tommy Vietor ...soft on terrorism and comparing him to Osama bin Laden and stuff. That was the brand o... ...whether or not we should go get Osama bin Laden . It's jarring for everyone, and tha... ...did have a role was, obviously, in the bin Laden assassination. When did you get rea... ...on the table, and it was a picture of Osama bin Laden 's face with a bullet hole in his head... ...anyone who did. I'm not criticizing— Osama bin Laden deserved to die, and I'm glad he i... Mary Beth Maxwell ...to the nation that they had taken down Osama bin Laden , and the reason that he was maybe no... Dennis Ross ...itself helped to provide recruits for [Osama] bin Laden for al-Qaeda. This was an interestin... Jane Lute ...we did not move away. We had, still, Osama bin Laden to deal with. Again, it's a really goo... Derek Chollet ...May? It's in May. It's right after the Osama bin Laden raid as well. Right, yes, which wa... ...the spring, summer of 2011, you had the bin Laden raid done, you'd put some big points o... Jeffrey Feltman ...this was roughly one week after Osama bin Laden had been killed. Were you involved a... Michèle Flournoy ...which led us up into the raid against [Osama] bin Laden , and then beyond. But I think what w... ...in the midst of this, in May, is the Osama bin Laden raid. You mentioned it earlier as ... ...organization like al-Qaeda, taking out Osama bin Laden was a big deal, since other terroris... Jim Steinberg ...May first, there's the raid that kills Osama bin Laden . This is one of these episodes in ora... John Brennan ...therefore had gone to ground there, and [Osama] bin Laden was in hiding, as well as his chie... ...was this massive manhunt underway for bin Laden , as well as massive effort to try t... ...Yemen were very closely affiliated with bin Laden . They also had some very, very exper... ...the raid that results in the killing of Osama bin Laden . And before I do that, I want to mak... ...approach. I'd like to come back to the Osama bin Laden raid. It's been written about by ... ...you think about it [unclear]? The bin Laden story for me started back in the 1990... ...frustrated at their inability to find bin Laden , so soon after President Obama cam... ...believed had served as a carrier for bin Laden . And Leon Panetta and Michael Morrell... ...was, indeed, an Al-Qaeda carrier for bin Laden , and he lived in a residence i... ...individual who looked suspiciously like bin Laden . We were able to observe him, or se... ...indeed this suspicious individual was bin Laden . Well, they did their best, but it wa... ...that he wasn't killed, so the myth of bin Laden would live on. Also, if you hit it wit... ...again, it was uncertain whether or not bin Laden was there. There were a lot o... ...CIA experts were convinced that it was bin Laden . They didn't have the confirmation... ...they had been on the hunting trail of bin Laden for many years. So my recommendation t... ...from the standpoint of, you don't get bin Laden and maybe these helicopters go down... ...operations—so obviously, bin Laden as a target is a completely uniqu... ...know, Bill McRaven advice about the bin Laden raid. I know Bill McRaven was the on... ...on target, confirming that it was bin Laden , and getting what's called the “SSE,... ...computers, documents, material that bin Laden had in that compound that was able t... Show more... Robert Gates ...for example, but of course, the Osama bin Laden raid. I just wanted to get you... ...you to redouble your efforts to find bin Laden .” So I think he had a very aggressiv... ...when I heard that he'd said that about bin Laden , I said, “Well, it's not like w... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Democrats Democrats