I'm not for spreading rumours either, but I am very curious to know exactly what happened, particularly since the involvement of the FBI, which seemed quite inappropriate to me. My first response was to thank God and our wonderful military, then to hurry into the house to tell my husband the good news.
I have had suspicions all along about whether the Navy was given the trust and authority it needed to resolve this situation without any loss of American lives. Until and unless it is clear that they did have the support and authority they deserved and needed, I'm afraid I will continue to have my doubts.
And that's quite rational as well. For all we know, the captain realized all his captors were asleep, jumped out of the boat, and this time you had guys with night-vision googles manning .50 cals on the destroyer and turned the lifeboat into Swiss cheese and one guy just happened to survive. We just don't know - it seems like special forces but it could be something else and this was a happy accident. But the point is, we did get a good outcome and we know absolutely nothing at this point whether or not Obama played any role in ordering an active attack/rescue plan. But too many folks are ripping into Obama at this point from a position of complete lack of knowledge of the actual events.