Reply #18: If the Obama administration "clearly" wants bin Laden's death "to be the start of a push to go after

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al Qaeda leadership. Not just in Pakistan, but around the world", then they should have taken every effort to capture and interrogate him, not kill him, rendering what he knows useless.

Since 9/11, the SOP with "high value" al-Qaeda targets has been to either render testimony useless (by torturing detainees), destroy evidence, or kill eye witnesses. If accurate intelligence collection and preservation of evidence were actually the point of these operations, U.S. intelligence would have acted very differently.