Six years after Osama "Wanted-Dead-or-Alive" bin Laden launched the 9/11 terrorist attacks against this country, he is no closer to being caught then he was on the day of George Bush's photo-op on the rubble of the World Trade Center. And thanks to the White House's need to feed their personal propaganda news outlet, tracking the world's most-wanted terrorist just got harder.
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...A copy posted around 3 p.m. on Fox News's Web site referred to SITE and included page markers identical to those used by the group. "This confirms that the U.S. government was responsible for the leak of this document."
As Hunter said, "When your entire foreign policy expertise is based on leaking information to Fox News in order to keep the population in a constant state of low-level fear, sometimes you have to blow actual intelligence information in order to do it."
And now the investigation into who was responsible for the leak begins. And who should we believe? The White House, who said:
MS. PERINO: When -- the standard practice at the White House is to take that phone call -- to take that request and direct it to -- directly to the DNI's office. So we do not ask to have that information just solely reviewed at the White House, we immediately turn it over to the National Center for Counterterrorism.
Or:
Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for the director of national intelligence, said..."At this point, we don't think there was a leak from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence or the National Counterterrorism Center."
And in the interest of being fair and balanced, I must point out that Perino also said:
Q My question is, you're saying they contacted these other places. The company asked them not to. So how do you know that the leak didn't come --
MS. PERINO: No, no, we asked --
Q -- from Fielding or --
MS. PERINO: Because I've talked to Fred.
And as we all know, when a White House spokesman says they've been assured a leak didn't come from them, you can take that to the bank.