arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)
|
Does Echelon not work well? by Guido Saturday July 26, 2003 at 03:02 PM |
| pannekoekrobert@hotmail.com |
"The new anti-bin Laden presidential directive was declared ready for the president's consideration on Sept. 10. That same day, the NSA obtained two intercepts quoting suspected terrorists predicting a significant development on Sept. 11. The intercepts were not translated until Sept. 12, the committee said in a heavily redacted passage of the report, "because of the nature of the processes involved."
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43165-2003Jul24.html
See also:
Did the NSA Lose a Sept. 11 Hijacker?
"The National Security Agency missed a prime opportunity in early 2000 to crack the Sept. 11 plot, according to a forthcoming congressional investigation of the attacks. The report of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, to be released Thursday, will say that the NSA intercepted and analyzed "several communications" between future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Midhar and an al-Qaeda safe house in the Middle East. But despite the agency's vaunted signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology, which enables it to intercept telephone, radio, cell phone, e-mail and fax messages worldwide, the NSA didn’t realize that the messages, from someone vaguely identified as "Khalid," originated in the U.S., the report charges. As a result, the FBI wasn’t alerted to what could have been a valuable lead."
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,466609,00.html