We had the chance to grab Bin Laden but he was killed.
We had the chance to grab other terror leaders but they are killed.
Now we give the information that we HAD a double agent inside Al Quaida.
It seems that politics is trumping intelligent gathering. Trade a newspaper headline for something really important. Trading lives for glory and reelection.
Imagine if we had these capabilites in World War II. We would have grabbed Admiral Yamamoto rather than assassinating him in 1943. We would have grabbed Rommel on a road in France. Killing these sources of information is stupid.
Even if Bin Laden had not talked or died during the raid, just the knowledge that we had him and he may have talked would have forced the terrorists to cancel operations and move people even if he was dead. Obama got his headline but at the expense of national security.