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CIA Director Leon Panetta became President Obama’s point man in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

12 12 Agents called the man “Pacer” because of the daily jaunts. When intel- ligence officials told President Barack Obama of their suspicions, the com- mander-in-chief ordered the CIA to continue its surveillance and come up with some hard evidence. It was an impossible task. Still, agents kept a watchful eye, eventually determining that three females, a group of young men, and at least 10 children lived inside the walled compound with Pacer. Bin Laden al- ways kept his family close, and agents suspected the women were his wives and the children were his sons and daughters.