Posted on 10/09/2007 5:58:10 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
“Not cleaning house was Jorge’s biggest mistake from day #1.”
Exactly ! So much for reaching out to the losing party in the name of bipartisanship. God Help us !!!!
So we lose an intelligence asset to gain a reporters ‘admiration’ for a scumbag ‘within the administration’?
You just shake your head.....
Yep.
This is like leaking we broke the Japanese codes in WWII, or the Germans codes.
Where’s the outrage?
I doubt it but I can be wrong.
I think they're all tied up with the Hsu Investigation. Oh, wait a minute. Never mind.
This is very vague it can be websites, forums which is not a big deal to see what is going on there or it can be private e-mails or private internet messages which someone who works for Al Qaeda or their "Sahab" media group. Again I have my doubt that SITE was able to have direct access to Al Qaeda or its Sahab.
As the article intimates, the intelligence analysts probably already had it (and probably would have sat on it until after its humiliation value had disappeared). But I bet they're enjoying watchine Al Qaeda scramble to recover.
Just DAM!
... the leaks, that is.
This is REALLY bad. It will not be that easy to repair.
Maybe they ought to make everyone and everything pass through a huge superconducting magnet that will erase ANY recordable magnetic media - except people with pacemakers, of course...
Cap’n Ed speculates that perhaps the information was intentionally leaked to disrupt AQ.
I was thinking the same thing. It's not like anyone at the CIA has any doubt as to what ABC or the NY Times will do with "secret" information. Hopefully, Al Qaeda is back to using carrier pigeons.
But why would you purposefully cause that well of information to dry up? Who knows what intel you could get from it next week, or next month?
I would guess SITE's email contained a URL which got a burst of hits after being forwarded by the White House recipients. Probably to a web site that only a few AQ insiders were supposed to know about.
Mahmoud (reviewing server logs): What is eop.gov? I see it all over!
Ahmed: Executive Office of Great Satan! Allah requires we must rehost immediately! And we must remind the brothers to be more careful.
I’m raising questions about this as well and it doesn’t pass the smell test.
Hypothetically, they could have learned that their source was about to dry up anyway, so doing communications damage was a good back-up plan. It's all speculation at this point, including the idea that this could have been a deliberate leak, or perhaps disinformation that will enhance the usability of the real intel assets.
Who knows - perhaps CIA has recruited Bin Laden's favorite goat as a humint source! ;-P
But observe how quickly the Administration was spat upon.
As if there’s only ONE “well of information”?
> Democrats are worried - they may start an investigation...
This is actually a valid thing they SHOULD investigate, but I bet they won’t because it might out someone other than “the Bush administration”.
But let me be clear— whoever is responsible— Bush administration, Dim, CIA — should be strung up by his ‘nads and shot for treason.
Bull SH!T, it was leaked from within the CIA by someone NOT appointed by this administration. How much do you want to bet?
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