A LEADER _can_ make those decisions in minutes.
It’s not like he wasn’t given prior notice that the opportunity may arise. Heck, he claims HE gave the project top priority as soon as he took office; no reason one of his staff couldn’t walk in with “80% odds we can kill OBL within 24 hours, here’s the issues...” and walk out with “do it” in minutes, if not seconds. We’ve overthrown two countries and spent hundreds of billions of dollars over a decade to kill this guy - it’s no time to “sleep on it”.
This schlepper needed 16 hours to make up lies and excuses to tell his muzzie friends why he finally said to himself “sorry OBL 2012 is coming and you are under the bus”. That under carriage under the bus is getting mighty crowded.