Posted on 09/30/2013 8:49:45 AM PDT by lbryce
As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures about their surveillance programs, some government analysts and senior officials have made a startling finding: the impact of a leaked terrorist plot by Al Qaeda in August has caused more immediate damage to American counterterrorism efforts than the thousands of classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor.
Since news reports in early August revealed that the United States intercepted messages between Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, discussing an imminent terrorist attack, analysts have detected a sharp drop in the terrorists’ use of a major communications channel that the authorities were monitoring. Since August, senior American officials have been scrambling to find new ways to surveil the electronic messages and conversations of Al Qaeda’s leaders and operatives.
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No doubt part of the same misbegotten, godforsaken presidential underlings that were singularly responsible for the death of our greatest heroes shot out of the sky with information from within the Valerie Jarret fudge-pack squad.
Bammy’s fault.
And nobody will ever be held responsible.
O may or may not be a muslim but everything he has done since taking office in 2008 has helped the bad guys
Since W acquiesced to the building of a MASSIVE Homeland Security bureaucracy, there are doubtless hundreds or thousands of Federal employees who have access to such information.
No way in Hades one can keep a secret when THAT many people are in on it.
This was leaked at the top. It was either Obama or one of his honchos that revealed it in an interview or public talk.
Either flubbing our national security to nothing or deliberately aiding and abetting. What difference does it make?/sarc
I suggest it was leaked on purpose by someone wanting to see how we respond to an imminent attack.
Someone from within must come forth with information to bring these punks in the white house down.
My guess is that this had the effect that Obama intended. And that was to protect Al Qaeda and the like.
HF
Only an honorable person would do that....looking at this crew I think that is unlikely
And nobody will ever be held responsible.Don’t be silly, of course someone will be held responsible. This administration has an excellent record of of holding people accountable.
BUSH’S FAULT!!!
Heck, Bush was blamed on this very thread.
Since news reports in early August revealed that the United States intercepted messages between Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, discussing an imminent terrorist attack, analysts have detected a sharp drop in the terrorists’ use of a major communications channel that the authorities were monitoring. Since August, senior American officials have been scrambling to find new ways to surveil the electronic messages and conversations of Al Qaeda’s leaders and operatives.The Kenyan-born muzzie stands with his fellow muzzies when the winds turn in an ugly direction. The winds turned ugly about 1400 years ago, when the big old Mo started calling massacres, slavery, and pedophilia a religion.
Nearly three quarters of the intelligence community’s civilian workforce have been furloughed, and the impact is disturbing, a source says
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianLAT/status/385057439726309376
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