Lots of people are asking good questions about the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims regarding this latest terrorist attack that they foiled by intercepting electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of core al Qaeda, and Nasir al Wuhayshi, a high level operative in the Yemeni affiliate.
See here for why the official leaks to The Daily Beast don’t add up. And here for why Conor Friedersdorf is skeptical. He says it “wouldn’t shock me if the closure of diplomatic facilities abroad is entirely threat based — or if the threat were being exaggerated to undermine the growing Congressional backlash to NSA surveillance.”
Marcy Wheeler is similarly skeptical. But she hits on what I see as the most important point: the Obama administration has made a number of official leaks, many of them baffling and, as Conor puts it, “pregnant with unexplained happenings,” and many of them purport to reveal significant details about the intelligence community’s ability to spy on terrorists, “and thus far, no one from the government has called for the NYT, McClatchy, and WaPo sources to be jailed. How … telling.”
Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, has been harshly criticizing Edward Snowden and calling for his immediate prosecution. But in the wake of the leaks about America spying on specific terrorists in specific times and specific areas, Hayden says it was important “to put them on the back foot, to let them know that we’re alert…”
Let them know that we’re alert? Is that not precisely what Hayden and others claimed Snowden did, to the detriment of U.S. national security? In July, Hayden screamed that Snowden “will likely prove to be the most costly leaker of American secrets in the history of the Republic,” because of “the undeniable operational effect of informing adversaries of American intelligence’s tactics, techniques and procedures.”
Which is it?
John Glaser asks “Which is it?”.
Whichever is more convenient at the time, obviously.
Hayden is now working for Mike Chertoff…the dual israeli citizen who let all the israeli terrorists captured with bombs and cheering the destruction of the twin towers on 9-11-01 quietly escape back to israel. Chertoff also brought us the naked body scanners to our airports and he has devoted his entire career to the destruction of this country. And hayden has the audacity to ppoint an accusing finger at a true American hero? Hypocrisy truly run amuck!!
After all the drone strikes, you'd think the "terrorists" had figured it out that they were being tracked.
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