Mike Rogers: US Missed Striking Secret al-Qaeda Meeting

by JASmius

Does this mean that GM is dead again?:

Michigan-8 Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula [AQAP] have changed their communications methods following leaks last year about intelligence collection in Yemen.

Video of a recent meeting  of 100 al-Qaida members in Yemen, including some of its top leaders, is raising questions about whether the United States was unaware of the outdoor event and therefore unable to strike it with a drone attack.

You know, I have to wonder about what possible constructive purpose these leaks could have served.  It may sound incredible, but even I grow weary at times of constantly having to suspect the worst of Barack Obama, whether in a sinister or incompetent context.  But if the Regime had a means of intelligence collection on AQAP and somebody leaked it, I can't come up with a great many alternative explanations for the leaking aside from providing AQAP with a heads-up.

Now we've lost an el primo opportunity to mow down at least most of al Qaeda's current global leadership.  And given that O eschewed capturing and interrogating jihadist operatives - aka illegal combatants - thus, by deliberate policy, severely limiting our ability to gather intelligence on AQAP and pre-empt mass casualty attacks in favor of putting all our counter-terrorism eggs in the drone basket, one would have to conclude that AQAP has given us the slip and we are more or less naked to renewed 9/11-magnitude or worse attacks.

And those attacks are coming, my friends:

Al-Wuhayshi is seen in the video appearing to make direct threats at the United States.

"We must eliminate the cross. The bearer of the cross is America," al-Wuhayshi says in a translation of his speech.

There's one reason and one reason only why Barack Obama equated getting bin Laden with victory in the War on Islamic Fundamentalism: to make the ongoing necessity of fighting that war, and the necessity of having to invade state sponsors of terrorism, go away.  So would getting Al-Wuhayshi end the conflict?  Nope.  It seems as if there's always another jihadi chieftain to take the place of the last one.  Almost as if this is a clash of civilizations after all.

And now we're little more than defenseless once more.

I hope this doesn't mean my Chevrolet won't start this morning.