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2015-06-10 Terror Networks

Report: U.S. Raid on IS Produced Wealth of Intelligence

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Why in the hell can't the administration keep a lid on this information so we can keep the bad guys guessing.

Amazing desire to trumpet short term achievements at the expense of long term goals.

I personally would have rubbed out OBL and not announced it for two years so we could take his info and play AQ like a bongo with phony OBL instructions.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-06-10 00:18|| 2015-06-10 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 That would require intellect, SPOD.

Posted by Raj 2015-06-10 00:23|| 2015-06-10 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 That would require intellect, SPOD.

Not to mention an actual desire to win.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-10 00:33|| 2015-06-10 00:33|| Front Page Top

#4 "Dude, did you hear? We totally broke the Nip naval codes AND the Kraut Enigma machines. Do we rock or what!"

I'm boggled. We seriously need to STFU about this stuff.

Posted by SteveS 2015-06-10 01:29|| 2015-06-10 01:29|| Front Page Top

#5 " estimated four to seven terabytes of data was extracted "

Totally meaningless. you need a lot of work to turn that into information, and vastly more to get some knowledge out of it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-06-10 05:18|| 2015-06-10 05:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Woofing kills or captures, and publicizing information about how much intelligence data is harvested is not only stupid, but detrimental to ongoing and future operations. Case in point; I remember years ago when it was somehow revealed that the U.S. was monitoring UBL's hand-held communications traffic. He immediately changed his TTP and began using messengers or other means of communications.

Of course the UBL coms leak was minor compared to the actual take-down, movies, books, political bloviating and posturing.

When I was a kid, shooting marbles on the playground:

"Yea, pops was at Iwo, [D-Day, or the Bulge], but he never talks about it."

I miss those brave men.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-10 05:32|| 2015-06-10 05:32|| Front Page Top

#7 You should read up on the trials and tribulations the 'command' went through deciding whether or not putting the hit on Yamamoto was worth it if it might lead the Japanese to conclude their key military code had been broken. Info on that intel coup didn't 'leak out' till after the war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-10 08:52|| 2015-06-10 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 I understand they sort of put the pilots that flew the mission into some kind of banishment to keep them from deliberately or inadvertently leaking key info about the Yamamoto shoot down.

Posted by Sock Puppet al-Doomi 2015-06-10 09:33|| 2015-06-10 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Beso, let me add Saipan and Tinian to your list. Didn't get a word out of pop until I got him a little drunk 30 years after the fact. Seabees saw some gnarley shit back then too.

Posted by AlanC 2015-06-10 13:30|| 2015-06-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, when I think of what those fellows went through, I don't even want to discuss my own mediocre, lackluster, swivel chair record. Little wonder they didn't want to talk of it. Very humbling. Very humbling indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-10 13:38|| 2015-06-10 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 At least one informer "deep inside" the IS group played a pivotal role in tracking Abu Sayyaf before the raid, a military official told the Times.

It would be interesting if this were disinformation so the ISIS inner circle gets paranoid enough to start rubbing each other out to try to get rid of the snitch.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-06-10 19:08|| 2015-06-10 19:08|| Front Page Top

#12 shhhh... we want to keep "Abhdul" and his ring secret, K? His foreign sources say keep on the downlow

Posted by Frank G 2015-06-10 20:43|| 2015-06-10 20:43|| Front Page Top

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