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...that may not help. It is not just getting intelligence, but what you do with the intelligence you get. Evidence introduced in the East Africa embassy bombing trials suggested the NSA had monitored some of the sat-phone communications between Bin Laden and the perpetrators ahead of the attack, but that didn't give them enough information to prevent the deadly bombing...
...prove excruciatingly difficult for U.S. operatives to directly penetrate Bin Laden's networks. His cells are often formed on the basis of family or kinship ties, and may even require a new recruit to kill in order to prove himself. The operatives, who would have to blend in ethnically, would have to forego their American lives for many years, years spent in the exceedingly harsh conditions of Bin Laden's mountain camps...
...intelligence agencies closer to the action. "We don't do manhunts well," says CIA veteran Robert D. Steele, author of "On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World." "We had to invade Panama to get Noriega. It took us years get Pablo Escobar. And we won't get Bin Laden without help of Saudi and Pakistani intelligence...
...falls to inexperienced people who don't understand the significance of what they're seeing. A combination of inexperienced field personnel, a bad processing system and the continuing bureaucratic distance between the FBI and the CIA may have conspired to keep us from breaking the back of Bin Laden's latest operation before it got off the ground." For Steele, then, the question is not whether more money should be spent on intelligence, but how it should be spent...
...appear to have a new overarching mission, and the backing of a U.S. political leadership determined to provide it with the funds to tackle the new challenge. But the way that money is invested may determine the course and duration of the war against terrorism in general and Osama bin Laden in particular...