White House: bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet"

The White House told CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry recently that the capture of Osama bin Laden was not a failure of White House policy:

ED HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

For more information on a success that hasn't occurred yet, see Iraq.