Not all's well in terrorist paradise. Osama bin Laden apparently has a big mouth.

Mohammed, held in American custody at an unknown location since his capture in Pakistan three years ago, portrays himself as a brilliant terrorist manager.

Throughout the discussion, he is almost contemptuous of the wealthy bin Laden, who held the purse strings.

According to Mohammed, bin Laden lacked inspiration and vision. The Saudi failed to understand the basic security requirements of terrorist plots, such as keeping silent about impending attacks. Mohammed cites bin Laden's decision to inform a group of visitors to his Afghan headquarters that he was about to launch a major attack on American interests.

Then he told trainee terrorists at the al-Farooq training camp "to pray for the success of a major operation involving 20 martyrs".

Mohammed and a fellow terrorist manager, Mohammed Atef, who was later killed in an American air attack, were so concerned that they asked bin Laden to shut up.

I guess he never heard the phrase, "loose lips sink ships."

Or perhaps he knew that people like Gorelick would prevent any real action from being taken before it was too late.

After things like Able Danger came to light, it is amazing that we seem doomed to learn the same lessons over and over again. If you beat your head against a wall enough times, it actually starts to hurt.

This is news? Wasn't there a President's Daily Brief (PDB) intelligence report with a title like "Al Qaeda Plans to Launch Attacks Within United States"?

Yeah, al Qaeda's opsec wasn't great. But so what? The screwup came on our end, with people in the United States missing the data. Who reads the PDB? And what did they do?

Wasn't there a President's Daily Brief (PDB) intelligence report with a title like "Al Qaeda Plans to Launch Attacks Within United States"?

Yeah, it's pretty much a litmus test for moonbats these days, and nothing more. A warning that "Osama plans to attack the U.S." is pretty much meaningless without dates, locations, etc. Unless of course someone is endorsing that immediately upon reading that PDB the President should have ordered the incarceration and interrogation of each and every person in the U.S. who may have come from a foreign country that could possibly have had an Al Qaeda officer present, or spoke with on the phone, or received an email, or snail mail from, etc etc.

Like I said, a litmus test for "Blame Bush" twits.

Or perhaps he knew that people like Gorelick would prevent any real action from being taken before it was too late.

it was too late to take any action by the time clinton left?

and at the very least, the pdb shouldve indicated that there was a problem that needed to be looked at. the bush administration didnt even look at it. of course that shouldnt surprise anyone, seeing as bush obviously isnt serious about national security. if he was half-way serious about it, would katrina have become such a fiasco? would the 911 commission's recommendations (they gave him failing grades on preparedness) go unnoticed?