1. No video for 20 minutes is not “going wrong” if they never planned on having access to that feed in the first place. I’m not sure why they would, since the transmitters would be too bulky for helmet cams.
2. I don’t see how anything about bin Laden being armed, or using his wife as a human shield, indicates that the mission “went wrong.” And I don’t think these are even worthwhile discrepencies. The first report says bin Laden resisted but “don’t know if he got shots off.” Then they say he was unarmed, but reaching for a weapon. They did find an AK and a pistol in his room.
As for his “human shield” wife, the early reports says he used her as a human shield. Later reports say his wife rushed the SEALs, they shot her in the leg, and then they found him. I’ve also seen reports that say bin Laden pushed his wife into the SEALs. It may never be clear exactly what happened. But I don’t really see how the original report was even inaccurate. Bin Laden may not have been holding his wife in front of him, like Link holds the Hylian shield in Zelda, but it’s pretty clear that he was at least to some extent “hiding” behind his wife; the SEALs had to get through his wife to get to him.
3. As for the picture—the friggin’ helicopter crashed. Helicopter raids, historically, have not gone so well. Spare the conspiracy theories—if I were in that room and I just heard a report of a helicopter crash I would be scared shitless.
And again: if this was “PR bullshit,” you’d think they would get their story perfectly straight and rehearsed… not filled with these tiny little contradictions and inconsistencies. The way they have presented the facts is exactly how I would expect them to relate them after a chaotic raid.