Who was it that released the info about the CIA monitoring Osama's

napi21

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Mon Dec-19-05 10:48 AM
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Who was it that released the info about the CIA monitoring Osama's

cell phone calls, thus tipping him off and he resorted to using couriers again?

Shrub is using that as an example of why leaking info like this is detrimental to our National Security. He said it was in the late 90's, thus blaming Clinton AGAIN!

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grasswire

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Mon Dec-19-05 11:01 AM
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1. I believe it was a senator

Arlen Spector comes to mind. I may be misremembering, though.

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Historic NY

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Mon Dec-19-05 12:24 PM
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2. Orin Hatch........

1235 PM > Senator Orin Hatch says on CNN that �the highest levels of the FBI and of the intelligence community� believe that the attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda. Also on September 11, Hatch tells reporters that the government has intercepted a telephone call between al-Qaeda suspects discussing the attacks. This information is highly classified, and the administration uses Hatch�s indiscretion as justification to limit the information it divulges to Congress. See Administration, Sep.12

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grasswire

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Mon Dec-19-05 02:10 PM
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4. good job, thanks

I knew it was a longtimer. Just should have remembered it was the twit Hatch.

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RobertSeattle

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Mon Dec-19-05 05:45 PM
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5. Kick

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-te.intel16sep16,1,3025292.story?page=2

That window evidently has narrowed considerably since 1998, though it might not have closed completely. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah Republican, said after Tuesday's attacks that the United States had intercepted a call between two bin Laden associates suggesting their involvement.

Such information is highly classified, and intelligence officials were furious that Hatch had disclosed it, fearing the targets would be warned not to use telephones, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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Liberal In Texas

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Mon Dec-19-05 12:34 PM
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3. The SAT phone info wasn't made public until after Bin Laden tumbled to it.

OBL moved his operations from the Sudan to Afghanistan. The infrastructure there was insufficient for OBL�s needs, so he contacted an intermediary in London who in turn arranged for a student in the US to buy a satellite phone. The phone was mailed to London, the service activated there, and the phone mailed to OBL. It was an Inmarsat phone. So NSA has a billion dollars, they figured this out and got good eavesdropping on OBL. NSA was very proud of this, and would show off their abilities to distinguished guests at NSA. They would laugh as he called his mother and talked to her. Unfortunately, OBL seemed to sense something, because he never used the satphone for operational material. Just used it for calls home. But this is still useful: at least we know where he is, because the phone radiates, and that radiation can be tracked. And we took advantage of that: Clinton called for reprisals against OBL after the embassy bombings in E. Africa, and we sent missiles to a training base in Afghanistan that we knew about because of the satphone. Unfortunately, two bad things resulted: one, OBL was not there when the missiles arrived, and two, OBL, no dummy, stopped using the satphone when he realized it was being used to track him. The NSA never heard from him again. Never. NSA went deaf. - James Bamford

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/bamfordreport.html

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