The US' former public enemy number one is enjoying a posthumous revival. Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, and 17 months since he was killed in a raid in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden has become a divisive figure in the 2012 race for the White House. The Obama campaign has been playing the bin Laden card to publicise the president's national security credentials - and the White House has been accused of selectively leaking classified information about bin Laden's assassination for the purpose of political point scoring. And it is not just leaking to news organisations but also to Hollywood, which has a major movie on the bin laden killing in production.
The irony? The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to crack down on leakers of classified information more than all previous administrations put together.
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