CNN's Peter Bergen Gives His Own Analysis On Some Recently Published Books On The Bin Laden Raid

The mission that killed Osama bin Laden is the subject of two new books.

Sense And Nonsense About Obama And Osama -- Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst

(CNN) -- On Wednesday some media outlets obtained copies of the heavily embargoed book "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen, the pseudonym of one of the Navy SEALs who was part of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.

The much-anticipated book, which is already No. 1 on Amazon, changes the way that the mission has been reported in one significant way. Owen says that one of his SEAL teammates shot bin Laden as soon as he poked his head out the door of his bedroom, not, as was previously reported, after the SEALs had entered the bedroom, according to The Huffington Post's account of the contents of "No Easy Day." This version of events indicates -- if there was ever any real doubt about this issue -- that there was little real effort made to capture bin Laden.

Owen's eyewitness account of the bin Laden raid has the ring of truth in ways that another recently published book that also focuses on the operation does not.

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My Comment: Peter Bergen devotes only a few paragraphs to Mark Bissonnette's "No Easy Day", and the rest of his long article on Richard Miniter's book "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him". I guess he is still waiting for his advance copy of "No Easy Day".

I agree with his analysis on Richard Miniter's book .... there are too many contradictions. Mark Bissonnette's "No Easy Day" book will be difficult to critique .... he was after-all in the bedroom when Bin Laden died, and he was the one who took the pictures that we are still waiting to see.