An October Surprise That Could Have Been?

A reader writes:

Obviously one can argue that any president with this type of intel could have and would have done the same as President Obama. Fair enough. Yet, what strikes me the most is this: The C.I.A. tracked down the courier last August to the compound in Abbottabad. By September "the C.I.A. had decided that there was a “strong possibility” that Bin Laden himself was hiding there."

If you recall, this was all happening while Obama and the Democrats were getting crushed in the polls. Any President could have taken the information, simply bombed the hell out of the compound, claimed they killed for Bin Laden for a nice "October surprise" to score political points. Obama not only decided not to do this, but not even a whisper of it leaked out. That to me is something this president could have done and did not do. I'm not sure every president would have done the same.

Apropos the tweet above, Homeland Security has declined to raise the terror alert until it has "specific or credible information to convey to the American public."