Regarding the legality of assassinating Osama bin Laden: “Others dispute whether the intelligence [on bin Laden’s whereabouts] was good enough. ‘The problem was the CIA always knew where he was yesterday but not tomorrow,’ argues [former counterterrorism czar] Richard Clarke.”
– Gordon Corera, “Dead or Alive? US Indecision over Killing Bin Laden,” BBC News, July 15, 2011