Posted on 10/09/2007 5:58:10 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.
Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.
The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.
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Note the emphasis ‘from within the Bush administration’. The operatives aligned against Bush within the CIA would be a more accurate guess, IMO. Think Mary McCarthy types.
I wonder if is was the same people who leaked the fact that the BIS might have spoted Mohammed Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani meeting in Prague.
It goes without saying that whoever did this ought to be found, tried, and convicted of sedition.
Not until they start sending the leakers to prison for 20 years.
The FBI should have already been brought in to investigate.
Leakers within the government who destroy vital intelligence channels should be dealt with harshly. They are traitors and should be tried and executed.
I may be wrong, but I'm drawing a blank.
Nothing will be done. Bush has a perfect record of not prosecuting a single traitor to our country. The leaks will go on because the leakers/traitors know nothing will happen to them. They are treated as heros by the MSM and will be shielded by the democrats in congress also. Odds are it’s a Clinton hold over at the State Dept. or CIA.
“Will they ever plug up any of those leaks?”
Never. The Federal bureaucracy is overrun by leftists and they breed like the rats they are. Fire one and a dozen take his place.
Did SITE obtain the video from a private communication with someone in Al Qaeda or its media wing the Sahab institute? In this case it is a different story but I have great doubt that the SITE institute has such an access.
Note to next Republican President: Clean house after taking office !!!!
Whoever is responsible for this debacle should be on a plane to GITMO in shackles.
Not until they start taking security more seriously. I was assigned a couple of years ago at an agency that deals daily with extremely sensitive information. You can’t get into the building without a Top Secret/SCI clearance, have to swipe in and swipe out, and no cell phones or recordable media are allowed in the building. Problem was, the in/out checks of bags were cursory and nobody ever checked my pockets for a flash drive or other media storage device.
Colonel, USAFR
They had apparently hacked into the AQ intranet and were lurking.
Well, unless it turns out that they are Bush Buddies.
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The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.
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