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.
They had apparently hacked into the AQ intranet and were lurking.
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.
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.
Joseph think “Suter”.
The first I heard of this video’s impending release was when “al Qaeda’s media arm” announced they were going to release another video. IMO, this is another sh!tpot being stirred by the Dems and their useful idiots.
First thank you for all the work you do. IMO they leaked it themselves to bring attention to their ‘operation’ and to discredit the administration. ANYTHING in the media now I am suspect over. It’s nothing but agenda driven lies A to Z.
This is a major security breach..an act of total stupidity and should be ppunishable by 20 years in prison or more for treason...The fact that it reached the high level it did puts it in the realm of TOP SECRET...OBVIOUSLY that means, do not spread to any other person or agency without highest level of approval...Our government is under attack and is being sabotoged every day by people who want to see this country collapse—thanks to the idiots-both Rep and Dem who appointed them or let them stay in power..We are screwed unless we clean the vermin out.
Is anyone wondering how a private company can infiltrate a terrorist website but our government intelligence can’t?