Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'. Again.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Um, I surely don't know either, but it was somewhat spectacular how Leon Panetta came out and ruined the White House Situation Room live action snuff film photo within 24 hours, or however long it was.

CIA starting its own wikileaks (officially rather than secretly) with "terabytes" of Osama files is also a little strange, AS IF .... anyone would believe any of it, after director Leon discredited the whole fable publicly...

It might be an either/or: either designed to totally disgrace and catch Obama in a lie while offering him the carrot of no opposition at the Democratic primaries; or, the corpse of Osama suddenly pops up out of the Arabian Sea with a note stuffed in his mouth, and the professional formers of public opinion quit releasing 4chan photoshops and bring out the really good fake photos and helmet cam shots to discredit "the deniers" who bit at the initial bait of obvious fakeness.

However, it does on the surface look like a botched operation promoted to something grand and newsworthy on the fly, and it might just be that, an ad hoc attempt to wring victory from defeat. Nothing looked so bad on president Carter's resume as Oliver North's bombed and wrecked helicopter in Iran sent to rescue hostages being held at the behest of forces within the US intelligence establishment.

I don't know.

Me too.

But the insightful unpicking of the onion layers of this Tall Tale is a worthwhile endeavour.

And it may be that the core event is close to your (or my, or other) working hypotheses in this thread.

Even if another purpose is to create a sense of the Impossibility of Knowing For Sure....