Report: White House Ruins Terrorist Intel
White House Denies It Prematurely Released Al Qaeda Video, Hurting Intelligence-Gathering
So an intelligence gathering method gets burned so that BushCo. can continue its fear mongering. How many times do they get to sacrifice National Security in favor of political gain?
White House Denies It Prematurely Released Al Qaeda Video, Hurting Intelligence-Gathering
Rest of storyA small, privately run intelligence analysis company says that a Bush administration leak has ruined years of clandestine work to find and exploit al Qaeda secrets on the Internet, the Washington Post reports.
SITE Institute, one of many private companies that troll extremist Web content and use secret methods to find unreleased material and release it early, against the wishes of the militants creating it, was the first to obtain an Osama bin Laden video last month.
According to the report, Rita Katz, who runs SITE, told The Post she turned the video over to the White House on the condition that it not be made public until the material was released on line by al Qaeda's own media wing.
Katz told The Post that by the afternoon of Sept. 7, the day she turned the video over to White House officials, it had been leaked and was appearing on myriad news Web sites and television networks around the world.
So an intelligence gathering method gets burned so that BushCo. can continue its fear mongering. How many times do they get to sacrifice National Security in favor of political gain?