U.S. Responded to Plot With Speed, Secrecy

Dame Eliza-Manningham-Buller, the director general of MI5, the British domestic security service, ticked off some EU Nations when she made this proclamation.

One can only imagine what she told Tony Blair to pass on to President Bush after the pro Terrorist NY Slimes and Washington Post revealed our secrets.

Whatever intel the Brits had via their MI 6 and MI 5 on this proposed mass murder via liquid/gel bombs on airplanes would never be shared with Congress.

http://www.spacewar.com/news/terrorwar-05zzu.html

MI5 Chief Won't Share All Secrets With EU

Manningham-Buller's (pictured) speech, therefore, reaffirms in no uncertain terms that in intelligence cooperation, if Britain has to choose between its traditional partnership with the United States, and the EC's ambitious plans to boost Euro-intelligence sharing, the United States will win hands down.
by Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
Washington (SPX) Sep 14, 2005
Britain's domestic security chief has warned publicly that civil rights may need to be reduced to protect the public against the growing threat of Islamist terror.
And in a startling expression of official British policy, Dame Eliza-Manningham-Buller, the director general of MI5, the British domestic security service, also made very clear she was opposed to indiscriminate increased intelligence sharing with all other members of the 25-nation European Union.

The European Commission in Brussels has been pushing hard for all members of the 450-million population EU to step up intelligence sharing to combat both terrorism and organized crime.

But Manningham-Buller made clear she rejected this broad approach to intelligence sharing, even if it brought Britain into conflict with the EU overall.

"There can be no coercion to share intelligence. ... If we splash it (intelligence) around carelessly we shall soon have none of it," she said in her speech delivered Sept. 1 in the Netherlands at the 60th anniversary of the AIVD, the Dutch security service.

Pelosi and reid were screaming about how Bush hasn't done enough.

The problem with Pelosi and Reid is that they don't let the facts stand in the way or their continuous bluster.

Obviously, no rats in congress were briefed.

Indicative of knowledge of the leakers identities?

5 will get you 10 there will be hearings in congress over the secrecy of a successful op.......after the fall elections.

"5 will get you 10 there will be hearings in congress over the secrecy of a successful op.......after the fall elections."

Only if we lose control of congress will that happen. If it does happen, that will be the beginning of the end of America.