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Update from Little Green Footballs … maybe not so much a WH leak as first suspected.  Still, there have been too many.

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Since the war started, there has been leak after leak of information about critical situations from the Bush Whitehouse.  It appears that the “right” hand is not controlling the “left”, and I mean that as it sounds.  Could it be that Bush Whitehouse has been infiltrated in such a way as to try and take it and this country down from the inside?  Who knows really - but it is scarey and unbelievable any administration in the Whitehouse cannot keep leaks from happening. 

You guys got GW into Iraq, twice, without the world finding out, but you have problems monitoring sources secret from the enemy?

A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company’s Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group’s communications network.

“Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless,” said Rita Katz, the firm’s 44-year-old founder …

Source: Washington Post, “Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda’s Secrets“

It’s like the Bush Whitehouse doesn’t want us to win the war …