Aw, c'mon... It's not like anybody takes any of this National Security stuff seriously...
Posted on 10/09/2007 2:21:58 AM PDT by jsh3180
WASHINGTON — 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. While intranets are usually based on servers in a discrete physical location, Obelisk is a series of sites all over the Web, often with fake names, in some cases sites that are not even known by their proprietors to have been hacked by Al Qaeda.
One intelligence officer who requested anonymity said in an interview last week that the intelligence community watched in real time the shutdown of the Obelisk system. America's Obelisk watchers even saw the order to shut down the system delivered from Qaeda's internal security to a team of technical workers in Malaysia. That was the last internal message America's intelligence community saw. "We saw the whole thing shut down because of this leak," the official said. "We lost an important keyhole into the enemy."
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Don’t be too quick to hang him. He may well have been delivering an officially planned “leak” of that comment. All is not as it seems in the world of intelligence.
Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip (ABC leak damage)...
abc demonstrating once again which side they are fully supporting....
yet like lib/dems all ~ they squeal they supoort the troops...wonder if they wear their american flag pins proudly on their lapels???
Aw, c'mon... It's not like anybody takes any of this National Security stuff seriously...
The Company acquired the nickname "The Boy Scouts" in certain circles.
But is the problem really with the CIA? I had thought that elint was the responsibility of the NSA.
You are correct.
This was no "intelligence blunder."
It was MSM Treason.
Someone had to tell the media. Who was it?
Wouldn’t it be ironic if a member of news media were to die because they couldn’t keep their mouth shut??
An investigation into who downloaded the video from our server indicated that several computers with IP addresses were registered to government agencies.
Yesterday a spokesman for the National Counterterrorism Center, Carl Kropf, denied the accusation that it was responsible for the leak. "That's just absolutely wrong. The allegation and the accusation that we did that is unfounded," he said. The spokesman for the director of national intelligence, Ross Feinstein, yesterday also denied the leak allegation. "The intelligence community and the ODNI senior leadership did not leak this video to the media," he said.
Ms. Katz said, "The government leak damaged our investigation into Al Qaeda's network. Techniques and sources that took years to develop became ineffective. As a result of the leak Al Qaeda changed their methods." Ms. Katz said she also lost potential revenue.
Is this where the MSM told the bad guys we had their cell phone frequencies?
What the hell was our intelligence organization doing giving the Press the info to begin with? How many times do they need to be hit over the head before they will get the fact that the MSM will F em every time?
TRAITOROUS MEDIA SCUM!!!
Guess who’s back working for Hillary again...
But you were right the first time. How did that information get to the MSM?
OK the dems like a witch-hunt.
Find the jerk responsible for the leak and charge the leaker with treason.
True. It may have been to see where things came from in the “shut down”.
It’s time to bring back the “Committee on Un-American Activities”.
Remember our discussions after Damadola....wasn’t it my position that we were intercepting AQ internet video posting.....I’ll be darned ....but....I was correct....:-)
How did ABC learn of the system?
Fyi
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