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My hope, perhaps a vain one, is that information is being selectively leaked for a more devious purpose. Perhaps to scare the terrorists into moving and being sighted, or perhaps into rushing a big plan with inadequate advance planning so they can be caught. I hope, I hope!!

Hope is internal. I believe it has been pretty well established at this point that the lid was supposed to be put on any further releases of information on UBL's demise.
The infighting within the WH is why any of it was brought out to begin with.
Gates and others on the Intel and military side did not want anything leaked. Others, the goon's gang felt otherwise and over ruled.
Whether the videos or other info leaked out has any real positive effects on al Qaeda world wide, the Taliban as well as other radicalized Islamist groups perhaps will never be known.
Our Signal, Humit, Geo spacial, other, has significantly improved during the past ten years. Many things are in place that allow for the tracking of enemy movements. If anything releasing the tapes etc., may scare them into more clever means of inter communications. It is a two edged sword. That is. It may worked against our ability to track them.