More Details of McLean's Secret Neighbors Role in Bin Laden Death

The stories keep coming that reveal more of the role played by McLean's Secret Neighbors in the demise of Osama Bin Laden,

Bob Woodward of The Washington Post (yes, that Bob Woodward) wrote a story carried on the front page of Saturday's paper detailing how a phone call to one of Bin Laden's most trusted couriers last year started the trail that would eventually lead to Bin Lade's death May 1 during an attack by U.S. Navy Seals.

"When U.S. intelligence officials learned of this exchange, they knew they had reached a key moment in their decade-long search for al-Qaeda’s founder. The call led them to the unusual, high-walled compound in Abbottabad, a city 35 miles north of Pakistan’s capital," the Post story said.

“This is where you start the movie about the hunt for bin Laden,” said one U.S. official briefed on the intelligence-gathering leading up to the raid on the compound early Monday," according to the Post story.

"The Washington Post reported Friday that the agency established a safe house in Abbottabad for a small team that monitored the compound in the months leading up to the raid.

Bin Laden's presence in the compound was not confirmed at the time of the U.S. raid, Woodward reported. "Several assessments concluded there was a 60 to 80 percent chance that bin Laden was in the compound. Michael Leiter, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, was much more conservative. During one White House meeting, he put the probability at about 40 percent," the Post said. The National Counterterrorism Center is another McLean Secret Neighbor.

"When a participant suggested that was a low chance of success, Leiter said, “Yes, but what we’ve got is 38 percent better than we have ever had before.”

Read the Post Story.