Several sources suggested last week that the extensive secrecy irritated some officials who were kept out of the loop at intelligence and law enforcement agencies, but declined to discuss the tensions in detail. Michael P. Jackson, Homeland Security's deputy secretary, said the secrecy "wasn't controversial. It was operational security."
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Hallelujah !! Thank God, the leakers were left out in the cold. Wonder if Rocky was told ... Peter King says he was in on it.
Thank goodness Leahy didn't know.
As the Washington Times put it, "We shudder to think," what the NYT would have done with leaked info...
Several sources suggested last week that the extensive secrecy irritated some officials who were kept out of the loop at intelligence and law enforcement agencies....
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And it was a super-smart move to keep the lid on it. Without any doubt, the treasonous leakers would have made sure it got printed on the front page of the NYT BEFORE THE BIG BUST.
Yes, people in Washington are getting smart about treason. It is too bad we do not hear more about these scum in our own government being identified and sent to prison.
The dems have given us a lot of ammo for the midterm elections. First show a clip of Reid, Pelosi, Feingold and the rest bragging about how they hated the Patriot Act and the NSA surveillance. Then, show the Scotland Yard guy explaining about how these and similar measures prevented another 9/11. Finally, cut to an airplane falling out of the sky, and ask:
"Would you feel safer with democrats in charge of your security?"
Finally, confirmation!
A caller to Roger Hedgecock (who was filling in for Rush) the day after news of this plot broke said that the CIA was kept out of the loop because the British and US officials didn't trust them not to leak. The CIA and the State department are disgraceful. I hope Bush hasn't given up on cleaing them up.
This report confirms what the caller to Rush's show (w/ Roger Hedgecock filling in) said earlier in the week about the CIA (and the FBI and others) being left out of the loop because of the fear of leaks. It's all part of the Plame/Wilson legacy: rogue leftists at the CIA and State Department.
"Operational security was the paramount concern on our part and on the part of the Brits," one senior U.S. law enforcement official said. "We had a very small number of people who were actually read in on it and operating with full knowledge."
Even now, three days after British authorities arrested 24 suspects -- and two days after most of the suspects have been publicly named -- U.S. officials are tight-lipped about the most rudimentary details of the case, citing strict British secrecy laws and a desire to avoid the strained relations that followed U.S. leaks about the 2005 subway bombings.
Several sources suggested last week that the extensive secrecy irritated some officials who were kept out of the loop at intelligence and law enforcement agencies, but declined to discuss the tensions in detail.
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See how godless liberals portray America? Join their state-sanctioned church because they have the knowledge, they will indoctrinate you, journalists and teachers the high priests...they are a god unto themselves and do not hold themselves accountable to basic values such as honesty, integrity, truth, because those are things the real God wants, they don't want Him, so they don't want His commandments.
Thanks for the ping!
BTT.
"Until the last hours, details of the British probe were confined to a limited coterie of U.S. Cabinet members and senior officials, according to interviews with more than a dozen people who were involved or have since been briefed."
We know that this must be untrue, since the Democrats have accused everyone from Dick Cheny to Tony Snow about making "soft on terrorism" remarks about the DNC, when they knew this was coming down.
So either the WP is lying or the Dems.
Doesn't the DNC's right hand know what its left hand is doing?
Game well played and now the leakers have been isolated.
Obviously, no rats in congress were briefed.
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.