Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, said in a statement that Obama authorized the mission because the U.S. "had what we believed was sufficient intelligence."
Well those guys overlooked six aircraft carriers in '41, some 800000 soldiers '67, another 600000 in '68, a revolution in '78, a few Russians around the Afghan border in '79 and the collapse of the Sovietunion in '91.
Journalists are much smaller than those so I can understand their difficulties with finding them
. But don't give up sometimes they can find even the non-existing WMDs. That's an improvement, isn't it?