Michael Mullen
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co, James 'Jamie' Dimon and Admiral Mike Mullen, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff attend An Evening With the Fortune 500 at the New York Stock Exchange on May 7, 2012 in New York City.
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I can assure you that those individuals who risk their lives — the last thing in the world that they want is to be spun into that
I got to look each of them in the eye. They showed me in their execution of rehearsal and also in that steely-eyed glare that they give you that they were ready to go
When I actually went to the rehearsal and watched it at night at a place where they built a compound just like Abbottabad and watched it in execution, that just gave me great confidence that they could execute thisMore quotes »
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