In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State"

by David Rohde

In Obama’s third year in office, the CIA achieved the single greatest intelligence triumph in its history, locating the compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, and guiding a Special Forces raid that killed the Qaeda leader on May 2, 2011. The raid was a triumph for the agency, the SEALs, Panetta, the Obama administration, and congressional oversight. After the discovery of bin Laden’s possible safe house, Panetta had briefed the Gang of Eight: the top party leaders of the Senate and the House and the top Republican and Democrat on the intelligence committees. All of them kept the secret. Oversight had worked as designed, and for once, intelligence had not been leaked for political advantage.