article_snippet: Pitfall: Evidence shows that CIA CIA may have taken too long to find and kill Osama bin Laden - a mission that was accomplished in 2011 after a decade-long manhunt .
article_snippet: CIA, along with other US intelligence agencies, wrongly assessed the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002 and failed to anticipate the rapid collapse of Middle East governments during the Arab Spring in 2011, among other shortcomings.
article_snippet: the National Security Agency's greatest public success of recent years — the 10-year effort to locate and kill Osama bin Laden in 2011 — may have taken longer than The agency's greatest public success of recent years should have, according to evidence made public in the recent Senate report on CIA interrogations.  