Washington - Democratic Sen. John Kerry said it is time to stop questioning the exact occurrences in Osama bin Laden's house before his death in Abbottabad, Pakistan, at the hand of U.S. Navy SEALs.

"I thinks those SEALs did exactly what they should have done," the senator from Massachusetts and 2004 presidential nominee said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "And we need to shut up and move on about, you know, the realities of what happened in that building."

Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the information gleaned from bin Laden's compound underscores his active role in the terrorist network.

"He was, in fact, the center," Kerry said.

He also praised the Obama administration's handling of the situation, despite errors in initial information disseminated by the White House, something he said is "the nature of the beast."

"Letting these folks know that we have this information is actually a way of deterring certain activities from taking place," Kerry said. "So I think they're (al Qaeda) on the defensive, significantly so. And I think strategically the administration has done very, very well."