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Selectively Citing Osama Bin Laden

By Thomas Joscelyn

Published May 24, 2013 3:50pm ET

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Selectively Citing Osama Bin Laden — During his counterterrorism speech on Thursday, President Obama defended the use of drones by saying the following: To begin with, our actions are effective. Don’t take my word for it. In the intelligence gathered at bin Laden’s compound, we found that he wrote, “We could lose the reserves to enemy’s air strikes. We cannot fight […]

During his counterterrorism speech on Thursday, President Obama defended the use of drones by saying the following:

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