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The Obama campaign was quick to push back against the video. Spokesman Ben LaBolt released this statement:

“The Republicans are resorting to Swift Boat tactics because when it comes to foreign policy and national security, Mitt Romney has offered nothing but reckless rhetoric. His two major foreign policy speeches never even mentioned Al Qaeda once, and he hasn’t outlined a plan for America’s relations with a single region of the world. In 2008, the President said he’d end the war in Iraq in a responsible way and refocus on taking out Al Qaeda’s leaders, and few would question that he’s kept his word.”

Another campaign official said “No one in this group is in a position to speak with any authority on these issues and on what impact these leaks might have, and it’s clear they’ve resorted to making things up for purely political reasons.”

The campaign also provided a slew of background reporting on the group that made the film, ”Dishonorable Disclosures,” which comes from Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a group that claims to be non-partisan, but one which shares an address with two Republican consulting firms, and whose president is a former Republican congressional candidate. Several of the group’s members have unmistakably Republican backgrounds, including spokesman Fred Rustmann, who defended the Bush administration’s leak of Valerie Plame‘s identity, and a birther named Paul Vallely. The ad features portions of President Obama’s announcement of the bin Laden raid, but omits the parts in which he gives credit to the forces that carried out the mission.

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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/will-cain-defends-swiftboat-style-ad-slamming-president-obama-over-osama-bin-laden-raid/