[TomGuy]

But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda's internal security division

ABC and other news orgs wouldn't have had the tip except that it was leaked by someone in the government.

Wasn't it Orin Hatch who, shortly after the 9-11-01 attacks, proudly announced in a news interview that the US was tracking bin Laden via his cellphone? bin Laden cellphone communications ceased after that.

[Dog]

ABC and other news orgs wouldn't have had the tip except that it was leaked by someone in the government.

Granted the leak is damaging...but if SITE and Laurie Mansfield and heck.... even I figured out we were inside AQ's OODA loop and reading them real time....then AQ knew it also.

[Uncle Ike]

” Wasn’t it Orin Hatch who, shortly after the 9-11-01 attacks, proudly announced in a news interview that the US was tracking bin Laden via his cellphone? “

On 9-12-01, President Bush announced that Congress would no longer have access to classified information....

Had he not knuckled under to the subsequent sqwawk (his first surrender of power to the punditocracy), we might be living in a much different world, now....