Joe Biden ‘advised AGAINST Osama bin Laden raid because he was worried about failure,’ Obama’s memoir reveals
JOE Biden advised Barack Obama to wait on raiding Osama bin Laden's compound because he was worried about possibly failing, the former president wrote in his new memoir.
According to Obama’s book, to be released next Tuesday, “weighed in against the raid” in May 2011, in which were sent from Afghanistan to to carry out the mission.
Top advisers to Obama were debating whether their intelligence was strong enough to attack – which would violate Pakistan’s sovereignty.
Obama wrote in his memoir that when he made the decision to send the Navy Seals in, Biden backed him immediately.
“The president, he went around the table with all the senior people, including the chiefs of staff, and he said, ‘I have to make a decision. What is your opinion?’
Obama wrote: “As had been true in every major decision I’d made as president.”
“I appreciated Joe’s willingness to buck the prevailing mood and ask tough questions, often in the interest of giving me the space I needed for my own internal deliberations.”
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Obama said that “as the helicopters took off” following the successful operation, “Joe placed a hand on my shoulder and squeezed.”
“‘Congratulations, boss,’” Obama said Biden told him.