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October 9, 2007

Our Treasonous Media And The Treasonous Government Employees That Feed Them

Topics: War on Terror

Needs Of The Many points to a disturbing NY Sun story that yet another news outlet here in the US has exposed a classified operation to the enemy that has prevented us from capturing or killing key enemy figures - including Osama bin Laden:

Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system.

The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden's first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.

But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda's internal security division that the organization's Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. This network of Web sites serves not only as the distribution system for the videos produced by Al Qaeda's production company, As-Sahab, but also as the equivalent of a corporate intranet, dealing with such mundane matters as expense reporting and clerical memos to mid- and lower-level Qaeda operatives throughout the world.

NOTM goes on to point out that the article explains how AQ hacks legitimate websites, without the knowledge of site's owners, in order to communicate with each other, and also that employees of our own government had to be involved in the leak to ABC News.

Given the alarming propensity for our media to expose national intelligence secrets, isn't it reasonable to say that the media is guilty of treason?

Considering a possible flip side to the issue, Dan Riehl is Not Buying It On AQ Leak ..., to which I'm much inclined to agree with. After all, it could just be, as Dan points out, that there's no better way to get AQ chattering on the Web than making them think that we have no clue where they are just now.

However, while we're on the topic, the issue still stands:

The director of a group that monitors Islamic militant Web sites said the government leaked an Osama bin Laden video that was passed along to senior U.S. officials on condition that they keep it secret, and that the the leak rendered certain intelligence-gathering capabilities ineffective.

Which begs the questions: Just when in the hell are government employees charged with keeping national intelligence secrets, going to start keeping national intelligence secrets - secret, and when is our damned media going to stop publishing national secrets?

Posted by Richard at October 9, 2007 9:51 PM

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