SPECIAL REPORT |
| Before SEAL Team 6 pulled the trigger, four administration lawyers paved the way to kill Osama bin Laden |
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:34 PM EDT |
| Weeks before President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011, four administration lawyers hammered out rationales intended to overcome any legal obstacles — and made it all but inevitable that Navy SEALs would kill the fugitive Qaeda leader, not capture him. |
| Just days before the raid, the lawyers drafted five secret memos so that if pressed later, they could prove they were not inventing after-the-fact reasons for having blessed it. |
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Saturday, October 31, 2015
Before SEAL Team 6 pulled the trigger, four administration lawyers paved the way to kill Osama bin Laden
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