Posted on 03/06/2015 9:40:04 AM PST by garjog
At precisely the time Mr. Obama was campaigning on the imminent death of al Qaeda, those with access to the bin Laden documents were seeing, in bin Ladens own words, that the opposite was true. Says Lt. Gen. Flynn: By that time, they probably had grown by aboutId say close to doubling by that time. And we knew that.
This wasnt what the Obama White House wanted to hear. So the administration cut off DIA access to the documents and instructed DIA officials to stop producing analyses based on them.
Even this limited glimpse into the broader set of documents revealed the problems with the administrations claims about al Qaeda. Bin Laden had clear control of al Qaeda and was intimately involved in day-to-day management. More important, given the dramatic growth of the terror threat in the years since, the documents showed that bin Laden had expansion plans.
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Once again.
Liberals were misled. No conservative I know of was saying that Al Qeada was defeated.
Liberals are like severely brain damaged sheep.
Read this article. 0 deliberately hid solid intelligence captured when bin laden was exterminated.
Damning article.
0bama sat on the treasure trove from 0sama’s hard drives and didn’t let anyone act on the intelligence.
This helped 0bama’s lying narrative that Al Qaeda was on the run, when exactly the opposite was true.
This directly Aided our Foreign Enemy.
TREASON!
Obama=al-queda
America was misled because a democrat President lied and the suck-ups in the press didn’t question’s ‘the One’s’ great wisdom...
America was misled because a democrat President lied and the suck-ups in the press didn’t question’s ‘the One’s’ great wisdom... Yes, I’m talkin’ to YOU STEPHEN F. HAYES And THOMAS JOSCELYN ... and all your liberal elite friends.
It’s behind a pay wall.
I’m in America and I was not under the impression that
al Qaeda was gone. I’m also not under the misimpression that the Muslim Brotherhood is not associated with every violent Muslim group, State and cause there is.
Here is Fox News video that sum it up.
The article was open on the day it was published, now it is behind a Wall.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/03/07/how-america-was-misled-al-qaedas-demise
Part one
In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of a mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The teams mission, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, had two primary objectives: capture or kill Osama bin Laden and gather as much intelligence as possible about the al Qaeda leader and his network. A bullet to bin Ladens head accomplished the first; the quick work of the Sensitive Site Exploitation team accomplished the second.
It was quite a haul: 10 hard drives, nearly 100 thumb drives and a dozen cellphones. There were DVDs, audio and video tapes, data cards, reams of handwritten materials, newspapers and magazines. At a Pentagon briefing days after the raid, a senior military intelligence official described it as the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever.
The United States had gotten its hands on al Qaedas playbookits recent history, its current operations, its future plans. An interagency team led by the Central Intelligence Agency got the first look at the cache. They performed a hasty scruba triageon a small sliver of the document collection, looking for actionable intelligence. According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the team produced more than 400 separate reports based on information in the documents.
But it is what happened next that is truly stunning: nothing. The analysis of the materialsthe document exploitation, in the parlance of intelligence professionalscame to an abrupt stop. According to five senior U.S. intelligence officials, the documents sat largely untouched for monthsperhaps as long as a year.
In spring 2012, a year after the raid that killed bin Laden and six months before the 2012 presidential election, the Obama administration launched a concerted campaign to persuade the American people that the long war with al Qaeda was ending. In a speech commemorating the anniversary of the raid, John Brennan , Mr. Obamas top counterterrorism adviser and later his CIA director, predicted the imminent demise of al Qaeda. The next day, on May 1, 2012, Mr. Obama made a bold claim: The goal that I setto defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuildis now within our reach.
The White House provided 17 handpicked documents to the Combatting Terror Center at the West Point military academy, where a team of analysts reached the conclusion the Obama administration wanted. Bin Laden, they found, had been isolated and relatively powerless, a sad and lonely man sitting atop a crumbling terror network.
part two
It was a reassuring portrayal. It was also wrong. And those responsible for winning the waras opposed to an electioncouldnt afford to engage in such dangerous self-delusion.
The leadership down at Central Command wanted to know what were we learning from these documents, says Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the transcript of an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a coming Fox News Reporting special. We were still facing a growing al Qaeda threat. And it was not just Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq. But we saw it growing in Yemen. We clearly saw it growing still in East Africa. The threat wasnt going away, he adds, and we wanted to know: What can we learn from these documents?
After a pitched bureaucratic battle, a small team of analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency and Centcom was given time-limited, read-only access to the documents. The DIA team began producing analyses reflecting what they were seeing in the documents.
At precisely the time Mr. Obama was campaigning on the imminent death of al Qaeda, those with access to the bin Laden documents were seeing, in bin Ladens own words, that the opposite was true. Says Lt. Gen. Flynn: By that time, they probably had grown by aboutId say close to doubling by that time. And we knew that.
This wasnt what the Obama White House wanted to hear. So the administration cut off DIA access to the documents and instructed DIA officials to stop producing analyses based on them.
Even this limited glimpse into the broader set of documents revealed the problems with the administrations claims about al Qaeda. Bin Laden had clear control of al Qaeda and was intimately involved in day-to-day management. More important, given the dramatic growth of the terror threat in the years since, the documents showed that bin Laden had expansion plans. Lt. Gen. Flynn says bin Laden was giving direction to members of the wider al Qaeda leadership team, if you will, that went all the way to places like West Africa where we see a problem today with Boko Haram and [al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb], all the way back into the things that were going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bin Laden advised them on everything from specific operations in Europe to the types of crops his minions should plant in East Africa.
To date, the public has seen only two dozen of the 1.5 million documents captured in Abbottabad. Its a thimble-full, says Derek Harvey, a senior intelligence official who helped lead the DIA analysis of the bin Laden collection.
And while it is impossible to paint a complete picture of al Qaeda based on the small set of documents available to the public, documents we are able to read, including those released last week in a Brooklyn terror trial, reveal stunning new details.
According to one letter, dated July 2010, the brother of Nawaz Sharif, Pakistans current prime minister, sought to strike a peace deal with the jihadists. Bin Laden was informed that Shahbaz Sharif, who was then the chief minister of Punjab, wanted to cut a deal with the Pakistani Taliban, whose leadership was close to bin Laden. The government was ready to reestablish normal relations as long as [the Pakistani Taliban] do not conduct operations in Punjab, according to the letter from Atiyah Abd al Rahman, one of bin Ladens top deputies. Attacks elsewhere in Pakistan were apparently acceptable under the terms of the alleged proposal. Al Qaeda intended to guide the Pakistani Taliban throughout the negotiations. The same letter reveals how al Qaeda and its allies used the threat of terrorist attacks as a negotiating tactic in its talks with the Pakistani military.
“Im in America and I was not under the impression that
al Qaeda was gone”
That is because you are a Freeper and are informed. But, the administration ran on the claim that Obama had sidelined AQ and that conflict with extremists was a thing of the past.
Thus, we can pull our forces out and release the Gitmo prisoners.
All lies.
Thanks for posting. I feel sick.
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