The arrogance of ignorance

Terrorist chatter increases. No. 2 Al-Queda talks to No. 3 about a big event.

Close the embassies, get people out of Yemen.

‘Manipulating the U.S. Intelligence Community Shouldn’t Be This Easy’

“The shutdown and warnings, then, proceed from the assumption either that the terrorists ‘chatter’ amongst themselves blissfully ignorant of what anyone who cares to look knows about NSA’s reach, or that they willfully warn us. That assumption flies in the face of experience. The terrorists who have bitten us have not chattered, while those who chatter do not bite. The terrorists who brought mortars and grenade launchers to destroy US facilities in Benghazi and kill our people did not chatter. The US government is up against serious people. Unfortunately, it gives proof of unseriousness.”

http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/08/04/manipulating-the-u-s-intelligence-community-it-shouldnt-be-this-easy/

(Yeah, we’ve bragged about signals intelligence and intercepts of high-ranking terrorists’ plans and locations, but they’re a bunch of illiterate goat herders, so it’s not like they understand SIGINT.)