The U.S. government released Wednesday morning an additional 86 documents from the vast collection of documents captured during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new disclosures bring the total number of documents released to 120 – a tiny fraction of the more than one million documents that were taken during the assault.
The release comes despite strong objections from the leadership of the CIA and many in the Obama administration. It was forced by Congress, which included the requirement to declassify and make public the bin Laden documents in its most recent intelligence authorization.
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