Hannity And Rumsfeld Agree: Without Bush, Bin Laden Would Not Have Been Killed

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld agreed with Sean Hannity (and disagreed with some others) that President Bush deserves much credit for helping develop the tools that were used to find Osama bin Laden. However, Rumsfeld wasn’t exactly on the same page with Hannity regarding whether photos of Bin Laden’s body should be released.

Hannity, noting that there are conspiracy theories that Bin Laden isn’t dead, suggested the photos of Bin Laden’s body be made public and wondered why our government is “overly concerned about an enemy that’s not going to like us anyway?” Yet Rumsfeld understood the concern that the photos might enflame certain Muslim groups and could potentially be used as a recruiting tool. Therefore, he argued the release was ultimately a “tough judgment call.”

The two men did agree though that enhanced interrogation techniques (and waterboarding in particular) provided valuable information, techniques which Hannity noted, “were employed during the Bush administration, without which this day would have never occurred.” Rumsfeld was just as quick though to praise Obama for making the best possible strategic decision to capture Bin Laden.

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

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