That's increasingly what I'm seeing reported, that this raid was four years in the making, and would not have been possible without "harsh" interrogation techniques like waterboarding, and prisoners at Guantanamo Bay available to interrogate and corroborate information gained through these interrogations.

And according to Michael Scheuer (former head of the CIA Bin Ladin unit) And Rep. Peter King (head of the congress intelligence committee) while these techniques set up under Bush allowed Obama to get credit for killing Bin Ladin, the changes Obama has made to intelligence gathering have assured that similar intelligence cannot be gained the same way in the future.