Posted on 05/05/2011 6:11:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, U.S. officials said.
The secret CIA facility was used as a base of operations for one of the most delicate human intelligence gathering missions in recent CIA history, one that relied on Pakistani informants and other sources to help assemble a “pattern of life” portrait of the occupants and daily activities at the fortified compound where bin Laden was found, the officials said.
The on-the-ground surveillance work was part of an intelligence-gathering push mobilized after the discovery of the suspicious complex last August that involved virtually every category of collection in the U.S. arsenal, ranging from satellite imagery to eavesdropping efforts aimed at recording voices inside the compound.
The effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it, U.S. officials said.
Most of that surveillance capability remained in place until the execution of the raid by U.S. Navy SEALs shortly after 1 a.m. in Pakistan. The agency’s safe house did not play a role in the raid and has since been shut down, in part because of concerns about the safety of CIA assets in the aftermath, but also because the agency’s work was considered finished.
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The media will blow every secret if they think it will help Obama
No. this would be in US national interest, and Eric Holder would frown upon it. That's not how this Administration operates.
OMG this release of info has GOT to stop!
Taking into account the source, my guess is to dispel the notion that any of what happen was due to continued Bush policies but part of BHO’s own initiative. Surely someone from the WH was told to leak the script to the bird cage liner producer for release. Although possible, I doubt anyone at the CIA would have disclose this w/o WH consent.
Regards.
yikes!
happen = happened
disclose = disclosed
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