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On the recordMarch 18, 2024
Should we have gone after bin Laden in 2001 in that winter when we had him more or less from an intel standpoint? Yes. Should we have? I think yes.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

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McCaul reflects on the missed opportunity to capture bin Laden early in the war.

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