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Agreed. This news was supposed to have been kept quiet, but it was leaked. From the NY Times- "Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wrote at that time, So Im told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot darn.
Mr. Urbahn quickly added, Dont know if its true, but lets pray it is. He was credited by many on the Web with breaking the news, though he didnt have first-hand confirmation.
Within minutes of that tweet, anonymous sources at the Pentagon and the White House started to tell reporters the same information. ABC, CBS and NBC interrupted programming across the country at almost the same minute, 10:45 p.m., with the news. Were hearing absolute jubilation throughout government, the ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz reported.
Brian Williams, an NBC News anchor, told viewers, This story started to leak out in the public domain largely when some Congressional staffers started to make phone calls. "
Everyone is out to make a name for their selves. I would have liked to have heard this in an official announcement from the president. I feel a little robbed. Plus I have to go to the bathroom, but have now been sitting here waiting for 45 minutes....