Let's Help The CIA Catch Osama

Seems like the President is having a difficult time collecting on his promise to bring OBL to justice "Dead or Alive." So, when some one calls the administration to the carpet for not doing just that, they get all defensive - see quote from Tony the Snow-job below.

So, I thought we could do a little bit to help out and at least let them know where OBL is not, kind of like setting up a null hypothesis and disproving it. So, if we all raise our voices and tell them were he is not, then it narrows down the locations of where he might be, thus making it increasingly easy to find him as more people report in. So, with out further ado, he's no where I've been in the last six years. Come on every body chime in. Where is not OBL, and eventually we will find him. Come out, come out where every you are!

There have been a number of allegations in the last few days by Democrats -- and I'll just read you one from Senator Harry Reid yesterday. "Five years after 9/11, al Qaeda has morphed into a global franchise operation. Terror attacks have increased sharply across the world, and the President has shut down the program designed to catch Osama bin Laden." This has become a fairly common refrain, so I thought I would take a couple of minutes to knock it down.

It's flatly untrue. Now, what has happened is that the CIA, in response to exactly what Senator Reid was talking about, a more diffuse al Qaeda, has, in fact, reshaped its unit dealing with al Qaeda to reflect that diffuse threat. But the notion that the President has shut down a program designed to catch Osama bin Laden is utterly without foundation. It was a reorganization, not a reduction, in effort and commitment.

The CIA's efforts to locate bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda figures has not been downgraded. To the contrary, it remains fully committed to locating bin Laden and his collaborators, and is devoting more resources, not less, toward the effort. The decision to reorganize, as I said, reflected changes in al Qaeda. And it's important to note that the effort to capture bin Laden is continuing unabated, and that the CIA's most experienced personnel working this issue remain fully engaged in the fight.

Some of the people making the allegations about the bin Laden unit know perfectly well what the facts are, and you do, too.

Ah, and "reorganization" is a eupahmism for what exactly?