Evidently seeking to slow down the Afghanistan “RETREEEEEEEAT!” momentum in the leftwingnut press and grassroots, SecDef Bob Gates reiterated on Monday that we’re not going anywhere – yet: “We are not leaving Afghanistan. This discussion is about …

A pair of veeeeeery inconvenient linkages for Generalissimo Obama to have to split-straddle. 1) If you want to hold yourself out as wanting to pursue an effective counterterrorism campaign in Southwest Asia, you have to win the counterinsurgency c…

To meet the demand for drone pilots the USAF recently enticed 500+ retired and former pilots to return to active duty to fly the drones; more will follow.

No SCI sensitive sources and methods have been compromised. After all these are military intelligence operations, which are harder to compromise than CIA and State Department intelligence. The difference? the military will hunt “leakers” down and put them in jail; I did just that for 24 years as a USAF counterintelligence investigator.

Some of them are still locked up after 15+ years; ya gotta love the UCMJ!!!

psyops. seriously, must the adults explain these things to you?
bloviator on October 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM

psyops yes.

We know how the useful idiots reacted to these things during the Bush years.

Bob Woodward wrote a year ago that US forces had developed technical means to track down insurgents in Iraq, a means which made the covert war on them wildly successful:

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/woodward_secret_weapon/2008/09/16/131390.html

It speculates on what those technical means may be. Perhaps it’s some way to listen to voices from high altitude. Maybe it’s a way to uniquely identify individuals by biological means. Maybe they put a scent on them that can be tracked.

TJ Waters writes in “Class 11: My Story Inside the CIA’s First Post-9/11 Spy Class” that one demonstration of technical devices in his training was an artificial dragonfly that was developed to spy on things. That was decades old technology, he said. What would the new technology look like?

What if our intel agencies have developed small bird-like or insect-like devices to spy in remote areas? Maybe they could place refueling/recharging/transmission stations in the woods and have the devices fly unnoticed from there to where the bad guys are and transmit their images and audio back to the feeder station for retransmission to airborne platforms? Such devices could fly or crawl around at night unnoticed. Maybe they could leave bugs or sensors everywhere, perhaps disguised as ordinary objects. Back in Vietnam, the CIA left sensors on the Ho Chi Minh trail disguised as tiger scat.

Bugs left in meeting places could transmit low power signals to the nearby stations, which would retransmit them to overhead aircraft or satellites. These retransmission stations might be powered with nuclear power plants, just like sensors left on the moon during Apollo. At least one such disguised nuclear-powered sensor was discovered by a child in Afghanistan.

On the other hand, strickly following this rule will clue the other guy off. If you aren’t talking, he’s been infiltrated, if you are, he hasn’t.

So on occassion you have to talk about your spies, when you do have a few in place, and not talk about them when you don’t.

aaaargh,

all of this spy, counter-spy stuff is giving me a headache.

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End result, read what they put out. Don’t put a lot of faith in it, regardless of what it says.
Celebrate when a strike gets someone.

http://www.geocities.com/libertystrikesback/afghans.html

So when we going to infiltrate DC?

chickasaw42 on September 30, 2009 at 11:32 PM

It’s pretty bad when we are more afraid of Obama than Osama.

The WH will find someway of turning a good thing into a bad thing very very quickly.

If in fact you have successfully penetrated an organization it might not be the brightest strategy to inform your enemy of this fact. “Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah-you can’t hurt us because our spies inside your your organization know your every move” (signed) Joe Biden.

Gee, and I thought Adam Gadahn’s use of Qabbalistic cryptologic ciphers in his Al Qaeda videos was apparently a near-perfect method for transmitting the GPS coordinates

Well you do know Goat Boy is Jewish, he’s most likely Mossad.

U.S. intelligence: We’ve infiltrated Al Qaeda

So when we going to infiltrate DC?

By now we should know every rock, goat and tree in that region on a first name basis. We have had 8 years to just sit there and watch.
If that region isn’t under 24×7×365 surveillance, then someone should be fired.
crosspatch on September 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Even quicker. Plant RFID like chips in things like weapons and ammo we seem to be missplcing all over the place, like Iraq.

Have the drones flying 7/24 boring grid patterns logging where all the RFID like chips are blinking.

We can log where and when the blinkings move, where the blinkings stop moving and are apparently having a party cuz there’s lots of em.

Then take all those logs from all those grid flights with all those blinkings make into an overlay, then put that overlay over a map.

I wonder if some sort of “picture” would emerge?

Trust me, if we’d had the fliers last years the numbers of strikes would have been much higher

Shame!

Is it good form to announce one has cracked an organization and has people on the inside? I don’t remember Masad bragging, or UK advertising that it broke German codes. I guess this is more hope and change being exercised in the intelligence gathering arena, which is something that both B.O. and his dummy VEEP seem to be very lacking in.
Hening on September 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM

Were in a war, regardless of who the CIC is, putting out misinformation disinformation and the flat out lie are all part of the game.

Is the story true? I don’t know and neither do you, nor does AQ.

Could this story cause AQ to purge its ranks? Possible.
Could this story cause AQ to believe its false, when in fact its true? Possible.

Will this story cause angst among ALL AQ members? Yes

Is this story a deflection for some other means of gathering Intel?

One thing I am sure of, if after reading this story you ask yourself “why did I need to know this?”

“Does this story change anything for me?”

If no, then you can safely conclude the target of this story was not you.

So who would this story affect/effect? AQ

OR NOT?

You are dead on. I’m a Nam vet who operated with SEALS a couple times. A few years ago, a guy in my industry started telling everybody he was a SEAL in Nam, but things he said didn’t ring true. I left a message on a SEAL website about him, suggesting they check him out. The guy completely dropped out of sight, immediately.