A private group, SITE, has been infiltrating jihadist chat rooms for years. They got an advance copy of a bin Laden video, put it on their servers, and told the White House where it was, asking them to keep it quiet so their cover wouldn’t be blown.
Within the next several hours, the video was downloaded dozens of times from .gov and .mil sites plus the transcript they provided the White House was been leaked to Fox News. The al Qaeda site then promptly shut down and vanished.
“Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless,” said SITE.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, at core the Bushies are deeply and desperately incompetent.
Unless, of course, they don’t really want to defeat al-Queda… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: every beleaguered leader needs an enemy, especially a neo-con leader. Between policies bolstering al-Queda and putting nuclear material within reach of terrorists in India, the Bushies appear to be systematically setting us up for decades of “war on terror.”
You noted earlier today that an invasion of Iran could only make things worse, yet the Bushies seem intent on doing exactly that. I rest my case.
Chaos is the field they work and it is very fertile for what they get up to, so more of the same seems to be their answer.