'Good men and women don't last long': Former top Navy SEAL who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid criticizes Trump, defends ousted intelligence chief's service

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• Former US Navy Adm. William McRaven, the Navy SEAL who oversaw the raid that took out al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, wrote an opinion column criticizing the Trump administration and defending former acting Director of National Intelligence Joe Maguire.
• "I have known Joe for more than 40 years. There is no better officer, no better man and no greater patriot," McRaven wrote in the column published in The Washington Post on Friday evening. 
• Maguire, a retired US Navy vice admiral, served in the military for 36 years, much of it as a Navy SEAL.
• McRaven's column comes a week after President Donald Trump was reportedly incensed at Maguire's decision to allow congressional lawmakers to be briefed on Russia's efforts to prop Trump amid the 2020 US presidential election.
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Former US Navy Adm. William McRaven, the Navy SEAL who oversaw the raid that took out al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, wrote an opinion column criticizing the Trump administration and defending former acting Director of National Intelligence Joe Maguire.

"I have known Joe for more than 40 years. There is no better officer, no better man and no greater patriot," McRaven wrote in the column published in The Washington Post on Friday evening. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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