Marc Ambinder, the National Journal’s White House correspondent, has just posted a sort of trial-balloon for the anonymous sources who play him like a penny-whistle.
From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 70 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.
After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap — boom, boom — to the left side of his face.
BOOM BOOM! Shot twice in the face, and then identified by “facial recognition!”
Shot twice in the face, most likely with something like the standard Navy Seal assault rifle, the Colt M4A1 carbine…
And then identified by “facial recognition!”
And then disappeared into the ocean!
But wait… There’s more!
Officials produced a quick DNA match from his remains that they said established bin Laden’s identity, even absent the other techniques, with 99.9 percent certainty.
A quick DNA match?
With what?
Where did they get the other sample of Osama’s DNA to match their corpse? Did it “fall off a truck?”
No jury in the world would believe this nonsense, but in the Global War on Terror…
We don’t need no stinking juries!
Meanwhile Osama may be dead, or he may be alive, or he may have died last week or last month or whenever, or he may have died in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Yemen or wherever, and the only sure bet about Obama’s silly fable is that none of us will ever know what actually happened.