Without knowing any of the details, I can only trust that the professionals involved in putting SEAL Team 6 in front of the camera insisted on adequate protection regarding the identities of the SEALs. To believe otherwise is to believe that the folks at the top of the SEAL chain of command are bunglers who can't be bothered to a) follow procedure or b) look out for the best interests of their men and to believe that the President would willingly and for no real gain expose the members of SEAL Team 6 to retaliation for their role in killing Osama bin Laden. Not liking President Obama is one thing. Believing that he would capriciously risk the lives of the SEALs against the advice of his military professionals is to put partisan politics ahead of common sense. Psychologists call this phenomenon "demonizing", by which we justify our dislike of someone by believing unbelievable [negative] things about him. In the absence of hard evidence to the contrary, we must assume that adequate safeguards were put in place.
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“We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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