Friday, May. 13, 2011
In the Situation Room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out bin Laden. That all fell apart ... the next day.
- ROBERT GATES,
- U.S. Defense Secretary, saying that the special forces who participated in the raid against bin Laden were worried for their and their families' safety; he expressed concern that so many details of the operation had become known to the public