To be a fly on the wall in The White House Situation Room. To watch as President Obama and his cabinet await news on Osama Bin Laden’s compound raid, or plan “Olympic Games,” the code name given to an American cyber attack on Iranian nuclear facilities – an attack that went terribly wrong.
David E. Sanger chronicles these events in his new book, “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power.” Offering a behind-the-scenes peak at some of the most concealed moments of Obama’s presidency – those involving national security – Sanger reveals a complicated view of America’s president, one he says that is more hawkish than most Americans realize.
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