Comments on: Bushies Tip Off al Qaeda…Again!

By: mudkitty

mudkitty — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:32:20 +0000

And isn’t it oh-so convenient for the Bushies?

By: midwestwilly

midwestwilly — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:58:33 +0000

I think if a real investigation was done into this event we would find that the privately owned intelligence company was CREATING those darned handy Al Qaeda videos. Ever notice how politicly expedient Osamas group is with their videos?

The terrorist threats we see today are mostly used for political blackmail purposes. Oppose the Administrations policies? Have a terrorist threat. Vote against our authoritarian power grabs? Here have another terrorist threat.

Again and again I’ll point to the fact that 24 to 27 thousand children die every day from starvation. Close to 40 thousand auto accident deaths per year, just in the U.S.. And were afraid of a “dirty bomb”?

Don’t be afraid of the crazy power hungry factions with in our own government folks. Be afraid of those crazy Arabs.

I mean really, insane psychopaths do have control of nukes. Unfortunately they run parts of our government.

(I think I may have just earned an invitation to a “re-education” camp : )

By: mudkitty

mudkitty — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:27:06 +0000

How will the Bushies raise “funds” for “fighting” AQ if they defeat AQ. Bush & AQ are a marriage made in right wing financial heaven. Don’t expect BinLaden’s capture any time soon. Bin Laden is a gold mine to the Bushies and the right wing GOP. Read Naomi Klein’s book on “disaster capitalism.” Create a problem (or enemy) then charge the tax payers to fix it (while privatizing everything along the way.) That is the Republican motto, and the Libertarian motto as well. It’s also a good definition of fascism.

Grover Norquist is the most successful Republican Leader out there. Norquist makes Karl Rove look like his btt-boy.

*****

Think about the framing of the word “funds” vs the word “money.” What are the different values given to the two terms?

By: Teaeopy

Teaeopy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:05:30 +0000

The public needed to know about black prisons, extraordinary renditioning, and illegal domestic surveillance, due to there being rule of law codified in the Constitution. There was not a need to disclose sensitive intelligence details of the hunt for al-Qaeda; quite the opposite.

By: Montag

Montag — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:03:20 +0000

Retired,
You’re forgetting the anal probes on Casual Friday.

By: Cee

Cee — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:35:47 +0000

Thank you cktantz. I don’t trust SITE or the neocon NY Sun as far as can I throw my house.

Even Michael Ledeen didn’t believe the last Osama tape SITE released was real.

By: 1 Boring Old Man » only a government of illusion…

1 Boring Old Man » only a government of illusion… — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:35:34 +0000

[...] agencies from the United States and several other countries. I first ran across this story on No Quarter. There are other versions, but the gist of things is all the same. The government leaked this story [...]

By: graywolf

graywolf — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:24:17 +0000

No where do I see any reference to who actually leaked this info.
The “government” or “administration” covers a lot of people.

Could it have been leaked by the WH? Sure.
Could it have been leaked by CIA or State? Sure… and more likely.

My problem with Bush is that he has been too weak/inept to prosecute previous leakers.
NO, not Scooter Libby, but the traitors who leaked the black prisons and the NSA surveillance program.

By: HCT

HCT — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:13:38 +0000

If the Bush officials didn’t think that it was legit, why did they leak it? Perhaps in light of the number of scandals they needed some good news? Wasn’t it leaked during the Petraeus situation?
This reeks of the same opportunism that the outing of Valerie Plame. Take attention away from the real national secuity situation and lay it off. Typical Bait and Switch methodology utilized by retail structures. Disgusting. National security is not retail marketing, or at least, it didn’t used to be.

By: umm

umm — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:30:56 +0000

S.I.T.E sends WH officials a link to a video they claim is legit and asks pretty please don’t tell anyone?

And, the only people claiming their sources were burned is this private terror surveillance company.

This Katz woman isn’t what she claims to be IMHO

By: Retired

Retired — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:27:09 +0000

It’s a good thing that this compromise was perpetrated by a political appointee rather than a career intelligence officer. Had it been the latter, s/he would’ve been cuffed and stuffed, given a free room at the graybar hotel, and enjoyed hours of polygraph fun. And rightfully so.

It would appear that political operators are not eligible to play for this prize.

By: ybnormal

ybnormal — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:51:43 +0000

They used to say, ‘loose lips sink ships’

Currently:
Loose nets, increase our threats.
Lost information, worse for the nation.

By: Bush Leaks Sink America’s Security. DUH!! : NO QUARTER

Bush Leaks Sink America’s Security. DUH!! : NO QUARTER — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:45:20 +0000

[...] security information the jury is in–throw the bums in jail. Today’s news detailed in Leslie’s post below describes how the Bush Administration’s eagerness to brief Faux News resulted in blowing a [...]

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:10:33 +0000

In the New Yorker article, Scheuer’s criticisms are limited to SITE’s Arabic translations. He finds them too incendiary. But I don’t think Scheuer speaks or reads Arabic himself, so I don’t know what he’s basing his criticism on. What others told him?

But SITE’s credentials and the outsourcing of intelligence is a side issue. The point of this story is about the leaking of intelligence, the destruction of an investigation into al Qaeda, at the behest of someone in the Bush administration who had access to classified intelligence. Something the Bush administration has a bad habit of doing, for example: Valerie Plame, the Pakistani source named Khan who was exposed during the run-up to the 2004 election.

By: ckrantz

ckrantz — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:53:30 +0000

Funny how the SITE keeps showing up in different circumstances. They produced several tapes of threats from AQI against Sweden after the affair with the cartoonist vilks. Threats supposedly coming from omar al-bagdadi a guy the US military in july called a hoax.

The website they produced the video from I assume is the same on that showed of the BBC reporter johnston located in malysia. Something even more stranger is why nobody kicked down the doors and seized the server.

I’v been trying to do a little background research on the people running SITE which made me even more wary of them. I belive Mike Scheuer among others in the New Yorker piece also expressed some scepticism of there trackreckord.

Basically can you trust businesses who makes a living producing intel packages on terrorist for media and goverments to produce an independent and correct analysis.

By: Fred C. Dobbs

Fred C. Dobbs — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:47:11 +0000

Possibly, some (or many) individuals with the cognitive abilities or language skills to do that work are unwilling to do so directly (W-2) for Uncle Sam. Some reasons for this might be:

Authoritarian Workplace
Low Pay
Easy entry into the ranks of Government Contractors.

If I could speak Arabic fluently, I’d have a chew-tobacco office space somewhere near Langley with a T-1 connection, an Ice Princess with an English accent to answer the phone, do up a slick PowerPoint about how great I am and start spinning my Rolodex and punching buttons on the phone.

Just a bush-league Beltway Bandit.

And, just like selling any other Service…get an SBA loan and a Grant for Start-Up coins, rather than burden my Amex card.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:44:38 +0000

Someone with access to classified intelligence regarding an ongoing al Qaeda investigation leaks it to the media, thus destroying the investigation…and the first place they think of to leak it is Fox News, which happens to be a friend of the White House?

If someone high up didn’t approve of the leak then wouldn’t you expect the White House to be screaming bloody murder about this? Have you heard them screaming bloody murder, or calling for an investigation, or __________?

By: oldtree

oldtree — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:35:49 +0000

For all of you in the government that read this site;
They are throwing bandini at you and you need to decide if you want to eat it or throw it back. I understand how difficult it may be for you to say and do some things, but when does your oath to the constitution trump this government?

and thanks for your work by the way

By: Deighved H Stern MD

Deighved H Stern MD — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:33:02 +0000

Just thinking out loud, but is it possible that the video could have been leaked by someone inside of one the the federal intelligence agencies, unhappy with the fact that their turf is being invaded by private contractors?

By: Bill Keyes

Bill Keyes — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:30:15 +0000

Maybe the the WH house will punish the leaker in the same way they took care of who leaked Valerie Plame’s name.

Or maybe we can Fitz on it and with full WH cooperation get a conviction by 2010.