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When intelligence officers expose secret operations

When six soldiers of the United States’ elite seal team went after Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in northern Pakistan on May 2, 2011, there was palpable tension within President Barack Obama’s kitchen cabinet.

A presidential election was in the offing and the soldiers knew that a success or failure of the highly concealed operation would have serious implications on the outcome of the polls.

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