WASHINGTON — The hunt for Osama bin Laden may have cost the United States more than $1.25 trillion in military expenditures alone. However the final chapter of the al Qaeda leader’s demise will likely end up saving the feds a not entirely insignificant amount of loot.The Obama administration all however formally announced on Monday that it would not be paying outside the $25 million in reward money it had offered for bin Laden’s kill or capture.“As far as I am aware, no one knowledgeable said, ‘Oh, Osama bin Laden is over here in Abbottabad at 57th Street and [unintelligible] Avenue,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during his daily press briefing. “So, my sense is that the requirement for any kind of award is to affirm that — not to accidentally, through intelligence-gathering, provide data that leads to his whereabouts.” Glance at More…
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