Harry Reid's loose lips

I wonder if he'll be accused of misleading us all with bad intel.

If he's repeating actual intelligence, it could squander a big opportunity in the fight with Al Qaeda, since presumably, we found the corpse and a lot of other information about al Qaeda. If on the other hand, he's talking through his hat, why would he say it? How would it help the Democrats' arguments against Bush's policies? If it's disproven he looks like a bigger fool than he already does. If it's true, doesn't that help Bush's policy? We kept OBL bottled up where he couldn't do much except issue occasional videotapes, and eventually his own hideout killed him. How does that spin to the Democrats' favor?