From: clyde1952
...Remember the recent Osama bin Forgotten tape that was released and played on the airwaves? Sure you do. What you may not have known is that intelligence agencies acquired the tape even before it was released by Al Qaeda operatives.
"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."
And why was this tape released to the media early? Well, first and foremost it was released to help that good old Republican cohort, the Fox Noise Channel. I guess keeping the ratings of a Republican propaganda network up is more important than months of work opening up backdoor portholes to Al Qaeda is. Yep, when Al Qaeda found out that we had the vid they quickly shut down those openings. Keith gives a full report.
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