We need an investigation and criminal charges filed against the leaker. This operation was compromised; best come down hard and send a strong message so that future ones aren't.

Posted by: Cornelius at October 9, 2007 8:23 AM

This won't ever happen, Cornelius. There is no one with cajones in the grubbermint. They are all traitors and moles and spies. I am disgusted.

Posted by: Jauhara Al-Kafirah at October 9, 2007 8:29 AM

Whenever I see the terms "US" and "intelligence" used in the same sentence, it always causes me some amusement.

Now I know why.

Posted by: idiotboy at October 9, 2007 8:38 AM

". 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."

...obvioulsy by Bush hating dhimmi leftists not interested in the national security issuses.

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 9, 2007 8:44 AM

Wellington wouldn't even tell his general staff months and sometime a year) beforehand, what his next moves were

But here, after Joe Wilson and the NYTimes leaks, why was this dispersion even considered ?

Even the copier machines have loose lips.

Wakey wakey.

Posted by: dgene at October 9, 2007 8:57 AM

Another article on this topic.

http://www.nysun.com/article/64163

Infiltration at the highest levels? Would the US employ a Russian at the highest levels of the spy network? But they employ the enemy's brothers-in-faith.

Incompetence? Or infiltration?

Posted by: Borg at October 9, 2007 9:06 AM

". By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration..."

...obvioulsy by Bush hating dhimmi leftists not interested in the national security issuses.
Posted by: exsgtbrown

WFT? Forget to drink your coffee seargeant?

It was the Bushies that leaked it!!!!

The Bushmen leaked it.

Drink some coffee. Wake TF UP!

Posted by: Ynkedoodl2 at October 9, 2007 9:12 AM

Why would George Bush and his gang leak this information and compromise US security?

Meet The Carlyle Group

http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html

Posted by: Ynkedoodl2 at October 9, 2007 9:25 AM

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.

I doubt that this was mere bungling and suspect that this company was compromised for political reasons.

Don't forget that CAIR has been given access to security procedures at airports like O'Hare, even though they are comprised of a cast of characters that would like to kill us all.

Given bush's own pronouncement on all religons reporting to the same diety -- there is no telling what he is capable of doing -- for example
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58033

Furthermore, I don't buy the overly simplistic arguement that this is nothing more than partisan politics -- bush is no longer an idiot in my book; he is a fruitcake and every bit as nutty as his iranian ape counterpart.

We live in the most dangerous time in history and we have deranged morons with nuclear weapons either at the helm, or circling about like buzzards waiting to swoop down and sieze office the first chance they get.

Like Texan used to say -- "lock and load!" the gates of Rome are comin down.

Posted by: witness at October 9, 2007 9:35 AM

This is one to note for when next government starts talking about National ID cards and all the safe guards it will put in place against invasions of privacy, etc, etc.

Posted by: Brett_McS at October 9, 2007 9:38 AM

Thank you, Witness.

"lock and load" is not original with me, but the concept has my complete endorsement. The fact is that Americans are stockpiling ammunition by the millions and millions and millions of rounds.

Take a look at this: http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=120315&t=11082005

Sold out. Out of stock. This is happening over and over and over. Hunting ammunition is plentiful, but cartridges in military rifle calibers are scarce. All in spite of the fact that there has been a tripling of the prices over the last two years or so.

But you can be certain that when there is the inevitable mixing of feces and fan, the gun-toting agencies of the federal government will be guarding the mosques in this country, and not the Americans.

Sad, sad, indeed. We surrendered to multiculturalism a long time ago. Now we are paying the price.

Posted by: texan at October 9, 2007 10:18 AM

It is worth noting the spin being put on the articles by newspaper activist Joby Warrick in his report. It is not "government bureaucrats" or "jihadist sympathizers" or "activists" or "whistleblowers" or even "the government" which are claimed to have leaked the information. No, the 'reporter' claims that it is "the Bush administration", as if this were a matter of policy handed down from the president.

The leak was done by a person or persons unknown, who had his or her own agenda. We each may have our ideas of what the agenda might be.

Joby Warrick, of course, put his own spin on the situation which, as is normal for him, includes a barely subtle bashing of G.W. Bush. Had Mr. Warrick been a good reporter, he would've noted only that it was someone who probably was within whatever portions of the bureaucracy were involved. For us, when reading such an article, we would do well to separate the facts (i.e., what was leaked and that it was leaked) from the propaganda and opinions (i.e., who is implied to have leaked it).

Posted by: colorless.blue.ideas at October 9, 2007 10:20 AM

Hey thats what you get when you deal with people who are on the other side.
Bush is a muslim rat.

Posted by: GrennBeck at October 9, 2007 10:58 AM

Perhaps the CIA should rethink its hiring practice to fill arab speaking zombies

Posted by: GrennBeck at October 9, 2007 11:06 AM

1. I would think that this would be an easy leak to trace but then, again, there have been many such leaks and none of the leakers have been pursued or prosecuted.

2. If this isn't treason, I don't know what is.

2. Part of the fault here lies with the private intelligence company for its being so naive as to suppose that secret information they passed on to our colander government would stay secret for any length of time.

Posted by: GaryK at October 9, 2007 11:12 AM

For us, when reading such an article, we would do well to separate the facts (i.e., what was leaked and that it was leaked) from the propaganda and opinions (i.e., who is implied to have leaked it).
POSTED BY COLORLESS BLUE

Fact 1)
around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition.

Fact 2)
It gave two senior officials (of Bush Administration) access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.

Fact 3)Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site.

Fact 4)
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.

===========
But maybe, just maybe it was

Major the German Shepherd
or
Meggie the Scotch Terrier
or
Winks the Llewellyn Setter
or
Tiny the English Sheepdog
or
Blaze the Mastiff
or his faithful and loyal companion,
Fa la the Scottish Terrier

Anyone of Bush's dog could have leaked it.

Posted by: Ynkedoodl2 at October 9, 2007 11:22 AM

SITE should have held onto the info.

They leaked it.

To leakers.

The CIA should now take the cached al-Qaeda website, and set it back up on their own, pretending that it was "driven temporarily offline by the CIA", but is now back in action.

And see how many jihadis they can sucker.

Posted by: profitsbeard at October 9, 2007 11:22 AM

"...obvioulsy by Bush hating dhimmi leftists not interested in the national security issuses.

Posted by: exsgtbrown "

Hmmm...

The Bush team has form on leaks. Didn't they reveal the name of an active CIA agent?

Is this the most incompetent administration in US history?

Posted by: Big Luke at October 9, 2007 11:41 AM

See also:

About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel -- Jawa Report
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189700.php
ABC Transcript showing date of September 6
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/transcript2.pdf

As a general rule, I distrust 90% of what the Washington Post prints. This is the same periodical who defended Esam Omeish's calls for Jihad and called upon a known Stalinist to defend him, while reporting that "right-wing anti-Muslim bigots" were the ones condemning Esam Omeish's calls for Jihad. Yeah, THAT Washington Post...

As I have pointed out before:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/omeish_and_jihad.php

Posted by: jeffreyimm at October 9, 2007 11:55 AM

....when the leaks are revealed, it will indeed be interesting to see just what side of the fence they are on and just what their agenda was....I have my opinion and you have yours....which is ok....I stand by Bush Haters...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 9, 2007 12:11 PM

....when the leaks are revealed, it will indeed be interesting to see just what side of the fence they are on and just what their agenda was....I have my opinion and you have yours....which is ok....I stand by Bush Haters...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 9, 2007 12:12 PM

My guess is that the leak was not accidental but deliberate and political. Some political hack figured they could make Bush look bad by blowing the cover on a snooping program that was yielding some success.

And it was the Democrats. Why? because they don't believe that Islam or terrorists like OBL are a real threat. A lot of Democrats think its all b.s. If in doubt go over to DailyKos.

Posted by: waltc at October 9, 2007 1:27 PM

In another article Iread a few hours ago, that qouted the owner of SITE, she stated that the message was leaked 20 minutes after she had notified the White House and released it to them. I dont have the article but I believe they were qouting a Ms Katz.
Regardless, my bad memory aside. That part I remembered, thinking thats some hyper speed leak. Not one that could have happened without the mans say so.

Posted by: FiveOAdviser at October 9, 2007 1:28 PM

"Operation", "Intel", "Treason" ... give me a break.

Rita Katz at SITE "leaked" this information. She is in business to do just that. This was not a 'Secret Intelligence Operation'. This was not even Ms Katz' proprietary information. She was not the only person to "find" this video. She simply patrols jihad-websites, as do many many other people/organizations. She SELLS her web-findings and translations to the media. The media had access to the tape long before the Bush administration did, because she has long since given them direct access to her site.

Ms Katz had a hack into one Jihad server, the exploitation of which allowed HER to PROFIT from the information she gleaned from the terrorists. When the terrorists realized that SHE had hacked them, because SHE attempted to again profit through the open dissemination of this sensitive information, they made changes to their server to prevent HER further access. For such a self-described seasoned intel veteran, she sure wasn't very careful with the operational security of this asset. She burned herself.

Despite te media's protestations, this "source" has not "dried up". Al Qaeda is still posting online, and we're (we defined both as US Intelligence agencies and private individuals) are still listening and watching. Ms Katz might not be profiting anymore, but that's something entirely different that what the media is spinning.

She was certainly no super-secret agent of the US Intel community, seeing as how she lists governmental agencies as 'clients' and brags about the death threats she gets on her for-profit website. She surely outed herself by complaining to the Post, not very good trade-craft.

This isn't the first time Rita Katz has made allegations that the actions of others have hindered her access to jihad postings. Those allegations are founded on her belief that she somehow owns the rights to the information she finds online. She doesn't. There's a better case to be made that people with such poor opsec/intel-gathering skills have no business screwing around with real terror threats. Because if assets are truly being burned, SHE IS THE ONE BURNING THEM!

So why does she have a forum for her complaints now? There most certainly are motives at work here, the least of which have anything to do the security of Terrorism Intelligence. If there was any breach of security and unwanted disclosure of secrets, it was done by Rita Katz and the Washington Post. However, the Intel community will be hard-put to confirm nor deny anything, for to do so would require revealing Intelligence gathering methods. Which leaves a perfect opportunity to attack the Bush Administration, even though Joby Warrick buries the caveat that 'we don't know where the leak came from'.

Posted by: ghostship at October 9, 2007 1:30 PM

Ok my bad, it was the same article. I reread the post here.
I'll blame it on a bad day and lazy reading on my part.

Posted by: FiveOAdviser at October 9, 2007 1:40 PM

...guess what...a name that comes up is Fred Fielding.....remember him....for a long time (many years ago), he was suspected of being "Deep Throat"....the traitor in another presidents realm.....this is not verified yet, but the name comes up.....can one be a 'deep throat" twice in a lifetime...?.....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 9, 2007 3:09 PM

(U.S.) Windows Into Al Qaeda Online Still Open, Say Experts -- Laura Mansfield quoted
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/10/windows-into-al.html

Posted by: jeffreyimm at October 9, 2007 3:42 PM

This is nothing but lefty propaganda, which means its nothing but a bunch of lies that deceive only the Bush haters.

The leak that wasn’t.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27425_The_Leak_That_Wasnt&only

Posted by: Bar at October 9, 2007 4:01 PM

Well, thank you, Bar.
Nice to know someone IS paying attention.
It's also one major reason the FISA issue that WAS being raised as an "impeach!" movement just months ago is now *ahem* supported TODAY by the very same folks who tried to make an issue of this "leak" misnomer in the first place.

Yes, the intel "bureaucracy" doesn't like being shown up (though because of some laws they cannot act on things they see, no matter how blatantly actionable otherwise)...

No, our intel is the best in the world (it's the knuckle-dragging by the collaborators in elected office, doing study after study after study to see if it's feasible to act on the intel 3 months out, that makes the intel old & worthless, yet they blame the intel people for the same thing they themselves caused by knuckle-dragging in the first damned place to begin with!) Intel just takes it on the chin because they're not at liberty to call a spade a spade, like the collaborators desperately deserve.

So we've had to rely on such sources as OSINT (look it up) to ge things done despite the interference of the islamicommie collaborators who should even BE in their elected offices in the first place.

The bottom line now is, the FISA issue is no longer disputable, no longer an effective issue by the militant collaborators (who are wearing a LOT of egg on their faces over that conspiracy BS), and is now suddenly being supported, even by those same would-be "Impeach!"ers to save what little face (and credibility) they have left.

;-)

Posted by: jcom972 at October 9, 2007 6:37 PM