Posted on 10/09/2007 5:58:10 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.
Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.
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.
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A sad state of affairs when private industry takes security more seriously than the US military. If I were really cynical, I could say that it’s not until vulnerability threatens their wallets that people get serious about protecting themselves - the idea that national security makes it possible for private industry to flourish seems lost on many who have never felt personally threatened by “what’s out there”.
“Is there anyone in Government placed there by Clinton that favors this country over the terrorists????”
No
Not until they start sending the leakers to prison for 20 years.
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I am against harsh punishments for minor crimes, simple rotation should be sufficient, rotate the head clockwise and the body counterclockwise, after a few minutes of this the prisoner can be safely released back into society with no fear of recidivism.
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