CIA ran bin Laden operation
Has anyone noticed that CIA Director Leon Panetta has said a lot more about the Navy commandos’ "killing of Osama bin Laden" than has the Pentagon chief, who, after all, is second in the military chain of command behind President Barack Obama? The reason Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said exactly nothing about the raid is that the CIA, not the Pentagon, ran the operation. That fact speaks volumes about the government’s rarely noticed post-9/11 melding of military might with intelligence craft.