[diogenes ghost]

I just don't understand why the intelligence community is crowing about "the largest intelligence collection ever".

Why, why, why?

Just say "we got some possibly helpfull stuff, but the bulk was destroyed as soon as our raid was detected by the occupants".

Telling AQ we got good stuff is just insane.

[Jeff Winston]

They’re going to know it already.

[don-o]

I just don't understand why the intelligence community is crowing about "the largest intelligence collection ever".

Why do you say the intelligence community is crowing? All the leakage seems to be coming from 1600 Penn Ave, doesn't it?

[SpaceBar]

Telling AQ we got good stuff is just insane.

Totally agree with that too. It's like announcing proudly that we just captured an enigma codebook off a u-boat. Clearly we have incompetents running things.

[Americanexpat]

Yeah, that struck me as weird too. Whatever value the intel had is being pissed away. The bad guys will just change their operations and go deeper underground. I think all this is to prop up Zero.

[BradyLS]

I just don't understand why the intelligence community is crowing about "the largest intelligence collection ever"...Telling AQ we got good stuff is just insane.

That's the difference between Obama and common sense.

Obama shows the intelligence and hides the body.

Common sense says to show the body and hide the intelligence.

[Morpheus2009]

Telling AQ we got good stuff is just insane.

I just hope that they’re actually right about how significant to we the people who pay for these operations. Give it all the razzle-dazzle you want, but then we can tell, based on how long, or how much evidence/documentation of the big busts in the future, you can actually turn up.

My feelings are that bin Laden became less significant between the time of 9/11 and when he was finally taken out. It’s possible, he handed command over to numerous other members so that they could take care of more without immediate notice.