MILITARY/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He was the man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. As a member of the Navy SEALs, he became renowned as one of the iconic military officers of the post-9/11 era. And after retiring four years ago, Adm. William H. McRaven took on a huge challenge as chancellor of the sprawling University of Texas System. So colleagues and commanders alike found it audacious for President Trump to label Mr. McRaven a ‘Hillary Clinton fan’ — and impugn his lifelong nonpartisan political position…Mr. Trump’s comments, in an interview broadcast over the weekend, reignited a war of words that started last year when Mr. McRaven, a four-star officer, called the president’s description of the news media as the ‘enemy of the people’ the ‘greatest threat’ to American democracy he had ever seen…The comments also underscored Mr. Trump’s complicated relationship with the American military and spy services: In this case, the president appeared to not understand that intelligence agencies were responsible for finding Bin Laden. The Special Operations commandos led by Mr. McRaven were in charge of capturing or killing him.”
–Eric Schmitt, “Trump’s Criticism of Architect of Bin Laden Raid Draws Fire,” The New York Times online, November 19, 2018