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Rep. Diane Feinstein: Bin Laden May Have Lived In Pakistani Compound For Six Years

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The AP is reporting that Senate Intelligence committee chairwoman Diane Feinstein (D-CA) revealed today that Osama bin Laden may have been holed up in the Abbottabad compound where he was killed for up to six years, before opening wondering that the Pakistani government or military were well aware of bin Laden’s whereabouts. Some commentators have openly suggested that bin Laden was effectively being kept captive by the Pakistani government to be used as a political pawn, but Feinstein did not go that far.

AP Reports:

Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Monday that Osama bin Laden had been living on the compound where he was killed for up to six years and expressed concern that the Pakistani government may have known.

“It appears that Osama bin Laden and his family could have lived there for up to six years,” Feinstein told reporters at the Capitol. “This compound has been around [for up to six years] and that’s the belief. I said up to six years.”

The California Democrat voiced concerns that the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), may have known bin Laden was there and not done anything about it, particularly given the compound’s massive size and proximity to Islamabad.

“It’s very hard for me to understand how Pakistani [leaders], particularly the ISI, would not have known that something was going on in that compound,” she said. “I’ve had a growing concern that the Pakistani government … is really walking both sides of the street.”

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  • skyfet

    Thanks to all the tax payers money sent to them for the past 10yrs.

  • Prom Night Dumpster Baby

    Well, on one hand knowledge of Bin Laden’s residency was well known to Pakistani military and intelligence – in which case they’re bastards and should be held accountable.

    On the other hand they didn’t know, and are therefore morons.

    I know nothing about how things work in Pakistan. But if a large mansion were erected in a non-rural area here, with conspicuously tall walls in certain sections, no incoming telephone lines (active or not), and with the residents burning their trash rather than putting it out, well, it would raise some suspicions pretty quickly. Especially if our country was much smaller, and thought to be the hiding place of the galaxies most prolific super villain.

  • Barack Must Go

    Feistein is your typical left wing zealot already carrying the Obama regime water not 24 hours after America gets a tiny respite from the unending ravages of partisan politics in this country.

    She is already building the narrative for Baraq’s defense when the questions and accusations start to fly about who in the administration knew and when, and if yor guys didn’t know than why not.

    To diffuse the arguement, instead of figuring what went wrong, that allowed this animal to exist right under our noses, to prevent this from ever occuring again, this morally bankrupt president, along with his equally morally banlrupt democrat party and their co conspirators in the MSM will once more mislead and lie to the America people by stating it’s all George Bush & Dick Cheney’s fault…..again because we believe ( with no proof whatsoever ) he was there for 31/2 years before Baraq was even sworn in.

    America and her people lose a bit more of our security to boost some Washington insider politicians standing in the polls…….it’s always for the polls, America be damned.

  • Barack Must Go

    Prom Night Dumpster Baby said:
    Well, on one hand knowledge of Bin Laden’s residency was well known to Pakistani military and intelligence – in which case they’re bastards and should be held accountable.

    On the other hand they didn’t know, and are therefore morons.

    I know nothing about how things work in Pakistan. But if a large mansion were erected in a non-rural area here, with conspicuously tall walls in certain sections, no incoming telephone lines (active or not), and with the residents burning their trash rather than putting it out, well, it would raise some suspicions pretty quickly. Especially if our country was much smaller, and thought to be the hiding place of the galaxies most prolific super villain.

    And if You were a resident of this village and YOUR children who were in constant danger from attack by both al qaeda and taliban soldiers until one day when ground was broken and a mysterious fortress like structure rose up out of the dirt ensuring only peace and harmony for you and your family…….then what?

  • Barack Must Go

    MSNBC is already pushing bin Laden lived in this house for 6 years White House propaganda talking points. Baraq Osama even if born here is no ” real ” American. He shamefully puts his own personal gain and political expediency above all else. Above what’s in America, americans and even above what is best for his own young children and others just like them across this country.

  • CAconservative

    Diann Feinstein accuses Pakistan of hiding an illegal alien criminal in their country? Wow, this is from the mouth of a Senator who represents California with an illegal alien parasite problem numbering 4-million!! If she can’t see the 4-million illegal alien parasites feeding off of legal California citizens, she’d be better off keeping her mouth shut about not finding one illegal criminal in Pakistan.

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