CIA had Bin Laden residence under surveillance for months

This excerpt from the NY Times article about the CIA and information that is being gleaned from the data the SEALS recovered is giving total credence that Obama kept dithering when they knew where Obama was located. We were not expecting to see this first paragraph below from the NY Times:

The C.I.A. had Bin Laden’s compound under surveillance for months before American commandos killed him in an assault on Monday, watching and photographing residents and visitors from a rented house nearby, according to several officials briefed on the operation.
The documents taken at the Abbottabad compound, according to American officials, show that Bin Laden was in touch regularly with the terror network he created. With his whereabouts and activities a mystery in recent years, many intelligence analysts and terrorism experts had concluded that he had been relegated to an inspirational figure with little role in current and future Qaeda operations.
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Now even the Times is saying the CIA had Bin Laden under surveillance for months, but yet we hear the statements that Pakistan didn't say a peep about him to the United States. We find that hard to believe just like we find hard to believe that the CIA was not an active participate in this whole mission since our resources in Pakistan had him under surveillance.
This Obama White House will do anything to make Obama look good but in the end he dithered for months. For once the NY Times is putting the information out there for all to see. What other news organization is going to pick up the fact that the CIA knew where he was at but Obama would not approve any type of raid for months?
Is the real reason Obama fired McChrystal is because McChrystal wanted to go after Obama as soon as the CIA confirmed he was there? Beginning to make sense because little else has made any sense. What took Obama so long that CIA Director Panetta had to issue the order? Obama said he didn't want to do an air raid as they couldn't identify if it was Bin Laden, but Obama had him buried at sea in less than 24 hours and talks about how DNA was confirmed right away when anyone with an ounce of brains has googled how long it takes to get a 99% match. Is Obama ever going to tell the truth or are we going to have to listen to 21 more months of lies and spin?