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.
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.
So why in the heck did they send this video via email????????????? And if they know where all the hits came from and when, then it should be easier to trace. This sounds like a set-up. Again. Like the Plame thing was a set-up.