By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

WASHINGTON — It seems to me that our government had vastly more intelligence on what was going on in Obama bin Laden’s ghastly hideout before sending SEAL Team 6 in last week than they are telling us.  

(FYI – this is not a picture of the helicopter used by the Seal Team that got Osama)

Yet why did they need a second helicopter? They were only after one man. They could have popped him or snatched him, and been off. The answer is obvious.

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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. His new book, After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery, was published on April 20 by Thomas Nelson.