The White House has lost Shep Smith.

If the White House wants to get a good sense of the skepticism they have created with their shifting story lines and refusal to release pictures of Osama Bin Laden dead they need look no further than Shep .

Widely considered the most objective anchor on Fox (and one might argue just on cable in general) Shep went on a tear on his Studio B show about the White House's handling of the Bin Laden storyline.

And I mean a tear: "We haven't learned anything, we've been told things."

Shep was on fire about whether White House was telling us the full story about what happened in the compound.

For example: Were the Navy Seals able to question Osama before they killed him?

Obama's phrasing of "captured and then killed" apparently suggests to Shep there might have been time to do just that. Even when correspondent Jennifer Griffin (who, herself, looked surprised by Shep's reaction) reported in the middle of the segment that the Pentagon denied there had been time, Shep did not seem totally convinced.

"They have to understand that part of this confusion is frankly of our government's own making."

Here's the thing, if this was any other anchor on TV Shep's suspicions might be chalked up to typical cable jabber. But as a general rule Shep does not suffer conspiracies, or conspiracy theorists (or angry emailers, or people looking to push their agenda) on his show.

So to see him show such a total, and vehement lack of confidence in the White House is notable. It's also a problem for the White House, because it likely speaks to a larger skepticism in the nation, and the last thing the administration needs now is to be forced into producing the death certificate, so to speak, in the same way Obama released his birth certificate.

That is not to suggest this skepticism has its roots in birther land. Far from it. A more accurate description would be to say we are now living in a post-WikiLeaks world.

Thus far the administration has opposed the release of documents on the grounds that it is a threat to national security. But what we are seeing -- notably in Shep's case...he has been vocal in the past about his support for WikiLeaks -- is what an undermining effect those releases have had on the public's confidence in what the government is telling us.

Later in today's heated show Shep noted that whether or not the government released the photos it was likely just a matter of time before WikiLeaks did it for them. And one imagines that will probably be the case.