Obama Describes The Bin Laden Killing On 60 Minutes

President Obama gave an interview to 60 Minutes on the big news of the week, the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

“Justice was done,” President Barack Obama said in an interview with Steve Kroft on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Regarding the Osama bin Laden mission, Obama said, “As nervous as I was about this whole process, the one thing I didn’t lose sleep over was the possibility of taking bin Laden out.”

But there are some interesting nuggets, including his statement that the vast majority of senior staff were not aware of the mission. He also says the period of the raid was the “longest 40 minutes of my life.”
What was most difficult about the raid, says the president, was that the Navy seals were ”going in in the darkness of night. And they don’t know what they’re  going to find there. They don’t know if the building is rigged. They don’t know if… there are explosives that are triggered by a particular door opening… My number one concern was, if I send them in, can I get them out?”

PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID: As nervous as I was about this whole process, the one thing I didn’t lose sleep over was the possibility of taking bin Laden out. Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn’t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined.