The veteran behind a web video slamming President Obama for politicizing the takeout of Usama bin Laden says that, since the video's release, a number of Navy Seals have contacted him expressing "discontent" with the president's handling of the one-year anniversary of the raid.

Veterans for a Strong America is in the process of evaluating whether they will purchase ad time for the video, which has not yet aired on television.

"What we're doing is we are throwing the penalty flag on President Obama for excessive celebration," the chairman of conservative political action group, Joel Arends, told Fox News host Megyn Kelley in a live interview from South Dakota. "What you've seen from President Obama is he's not only spiked the football, he's signed it, he threw it up in the stands with the fans." (read more)

Mitt Romney said "of course" he would have ordered Usama Bin Laden killed.

Romney made the comments while speaking to reporters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," added Romney.

President Obama's re-election campaign has questioned Romney's willingness to take bin Laden out.

It was one year ago this week that Obama authorized the U.S. military raid in Pakistan that led to bin Laden's death.

Vice President Joe Biden gave a rare inside look Friday at the internal deliberations that led to President Obama's decision last year to dispatch a Navy SEAL team to kill Osama bin Laden.
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Court documents obtained by Fox News show that Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Defense and CIA for refusing to release details of their alleged communications with director Kathryn Bigelow and the movie tentatively titles "Killing bin Laden."

Judicial Watch says it requested information about "meetings and communications" between the Defense Department and Bigelow in August 2011.  Judicial Watch sought similar information from the CIA but was apparently told the spy agency could not respond within the statutory period because of a flood of Freedom of Information Act requests.

The two agencies have told a federal court, in response to a related suit by Judicial Watch, that there are "52 unique ... photographs and/or video recordings" from the raid. The Defense Department and CIA argue they cannot be released because it would reveal military and intelligence secrets and possible retaliation against US personnel.

The new court filing presents a conflict for the Obama administration, which says the material is too secretive to share with the public but apparently felt comfortable helping Bigelow with the bin Laden movie.

President Obama visited CIA headquarters in northern Virginia on Friday to congratulate and thank the intelligence community for their work in taking down Usama bin Laden and for their daily work in keeping America safe.

Speaking before 1,000 people, Obama told the workers, "You stayed focused on your mission. You honored the memory of your fallen colleagues. In helping to locate and take down Usama bin Laden, you made it possible for us to achieve the most significant victory yet in our war to defeat Al Qaeda."

The president acknowledged the difficulty of intelligence jobs, saying that part of the challenge of their work is the necessity to keep information secret. "I know that carries a heavy burden," Obama said. "You're often the first ones to get the blame when things go wrong. And you're always the last ones to get the credit when things go right. So when things do go right and they do more often than the world will ever know. We've got to celebrate your success." (read more)

They're both Republicans, they both represent districts in Colorado and they both serve on the House Armed Services Committee. But on the issue of seeing photos taken after Usama bin Laden's death, Congressmen Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn couldn't be more different.

Members of the Senate and House Intelligence and Armed Services committees were given an opportunity to see the pictures at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.

Congressman Lamborn was one of the lawmakers who chose to view the images. "It brought me some closure," he said during a Sunday interview with Fox News. "It was more emotional than I thought it would be."

Congressman Coffman, a Marine Corps combat veteran, said he had no interest in seeing the gory images, adding "I've been around war all my life."

Coffman went on to say that traveling to the CIA Headquarters "would not have been a good use of my time."

Lamborn argues that select members of Congress shouldn't be the only ones who see the photos, telling Fox News, "I think for Americans who were traumatized, I think there is some closure involved. Also, it shows that America is victorious."

Lamborn added he thought the photos would send a powerful message to "the bad guys out there."

That message is what worries Coffman, who told Fox News the pictures could be used by America's enemies. (read more)

The CIA will make photos of a deceased Usama bin Laden available to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Intelligence Committee, according to a Capitol Hill source who spoke to Fox News on the condition of anonymity.  

Members must travel to CIA headquarters to view the pictures that many have called "gruesome." Members have been directed to contact the CIA to arrange a time for a viewing.

The message went out to Senate offices Tuesday.

The House Intelligence Committee tells Fox News it will permit its members to travel to the CIA to look at the photos. The House Armed Services Committee has not said whether its members will go to CIA headquarters to view them.

Fox News senior House producer Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Fox News has learned that President Obama has met with Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, the U.S. Special Operations Commander who personally oversaw the training of the Navy SEALS that took out Usama bin Laden. On Friday he'll meet the actual SEALS who carried out that mission.

"The President met with Admiral McRaven at the White House yesterday to thank him personally in the Oval Office and will have the opportunity to privately thank some of the special operators involved in the operation tomorrow at Fort Campbell [Kentucky]," a senior administration official told Fox News.

Friday's visit to Fort Campbell will also bring the president to the home base of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. This is the regiment of the MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilots who supported the SEALs in the bin Laden mission. The president will also meet with them, as well as members of the Air Force who flew reconnaissance and cover, Fox News has learned. All of these meetings will be private, Fox News has been told.

Following the killing of terrorist Usama bin Laden, the president has connected with those most affected by the September 11th attacks. Thursday he met privately with families of the victims of that day, as well as first responders.

Fox News' Justin Fishel, Jennifer Griffin and Mike Emanuel contributed to this report.

The nation's top law enforcement official Wednesday tried to dismiss questions over whether Sunday's killing of Usama bin Laden was legal, saying in no uncertain terms he is "proud" of the assault and it "was justified as an act of national self defense."

"Let me make something very clear," Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The operation in which Usama bin Laden was killed was lawful. He was the head of al Qaeda, the organization that had conducted the attacks of September 11th. He admitted his involvement ... [and] he said he would not be taken alive."

Holder said it's lawful to "target an enemy commander in the field," just as U.S. forces did during World War II when it shot down a plane carrying Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto.

Bin Laden was "by my estimation, and the estimation of the Justice Department, a lawful military target, and the operation was conducted consistent with our law [and] with our values." (read more)

What would the Obama administration have done with Usama bin Laden if he were captured, rather than killed?

That's the question posed to Attorney General Eric Holder during a House hearing Tuesday. Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., wanted to know if Holder would have opposed a military trial for the Al Qaeda leader, in the same way Holder has opposed a military trial for alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. Holder recently reversed course on the 9/11 case, sending it back to the military for prosecution.

Holder dismissed Lungren's inquiry as "a hypothetical" that's not "particularly relevant." But, Holder told Lungren, "The act that we took [again bin Laden] was both lawful, legitimate and appropriate in every way. The people who were responsible for that action -- both in the decision-making and the effecting of that decision -- handled themselves I think quite well." (read more)