Friday, May 4, 2012

Why Did The White House Decide To Publish Bin Laden's Memos And Documents?



Telling The Enemy What We Know -- James Jay Carafano, New York Post

If the White House hoped that releasing documents scored by Seal Team Six at Osama’s hideaway would ease anxiety about the threat of terrorism, it badly misjudged the value of reading bin Laden’s mail.

The government turned over a cache of the captured documents to the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point for translation, analysis and publication. The center is a crackerjack outfit that turns out some of the world’s best analysis on global terrorism. And it did a bang-up job with the 17 declassified documents released yesterday.

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My Comment: There are some good points in this commentary. As a blogger I love having this information released .... but as someone who is concerned about national security .... was this disclosure the right move?

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