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Obama Adviser On Meet the Press: Bin Laden Intel Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’

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National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, making the rounds of the Sunday shows, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press to discuss the large amount of data recovered in the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. While Americans have been treated to video of bin Laden the (non)couch potato channel-surfing from his creepy uncle den on a TV he obviously stole from his compound’s guard shack, Donilon told David Gregory that there’s a lot more where that came from, and summed it up colorfully, saying of the find, “”It’s about the size, the CIA tells us, of a small college library.”

There are a number of key differences, of course, including the fact that the bin Laden cache is probably light on those crummy mimeographed self-published “textbooks” that your professors make you buy, and the information is probably actually useful.

Donilon wasn’t able to give many specifics on the “treasure trove” of captured intel, other than to say that it indicates bin Laden was much more involved in al Qaeda operations, and much less a simple figurehead, than had been previously thought. While most have urged caution, bin Laden’s operational importance to al Qaeda may be cause for optimism about the organization’s questionable  future.

Here’s Donilon’s brief interview, from NBC’s Meet the Press:


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  • WCinWI

    Dude – This admin should get a hold on its people. There is no reason why the world should know what exists in our capacity. Way to bungle this Obama. Congrats on the kill, but horrific on the PR.

  • Moderate

    Sounds like someone is using misinformation, trying to create panic within people on bin Laden’s contact list.

  • Barack Must Go

    Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’.

    Just like in any small library, most of it’s content is either ancient history or fiction.

    This is merely Obama the loser still spanking his own monkey. Only now he’s sending out administration serrogates, as part of his typical propaganda dissemination campaign machine consisting of the equally lost MSM.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    As the philosopher Flavor Flav has said ,” One monkey don’t stop no show ” .

    “It means that the absence of one person or thing doesn’t stop life from going on–like one missing monkey wouldn’t stop a circus from performing.”
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080106131736AAD83gF

  • RowdyHoward

    WCinWI said:
    Dude – This admin should get a hold on its people. There is no reason why the world should know what exists in our capacity. Way to bungle this Obama. Congrats on the kill, but horrific on the PR.

    I agree with you here, I think the Intel may be more valuable than the kill…but don’t tell everyone about it!!

  • mlb

    I am sure the CIA is thrilled that the National Security Advisor is blabbing what a huge windfall the intel gathered is.
    While hard to resist not to share with the whole world what we have gotten, this isn’t exactly the time to actually start to fulfill that campaign promise of the “most transparent” administration ever.
    The panic in bin Ladens organization started 24 hours after his death, just tag some resources, follow the money and see where it goes – but be smart and don’t let it play out on the international media.

  • Alice67

    Thank you President Obama!

  • Barack Must Go

    Alice67 said:
    Thank you President Obama!

    Yeah, for nuthin maybe …..

  • ndanielson

    Bummer, lemmings. I don’t know what suits leftists better, sheep or lemmings.

    Obama’s nat’l intel director admits: Waterboarding helped catch bin Laden
    From THE NEW YORK TIMES

    Dang. Good think Fox News didn’t report this. The lemmings would think Fox was after their dear 0bama, and lying.

    By PETER BAKER

    WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.

    “High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday…

    Posted by Christian Hartsock.

    [nytimes.com]

    Thank you G. W.!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    size of a small college library?!

    this guy is a political hack… he did a great job at Fannie Mae (the 5th largest corp in the US)…
    might as well haul out ex st dept spokesman Crowley to claim that this intel represents the lost library of Alexandria…

  • werRu

    Barack Must Go said:
    This is merely Obama the loser still spanking his own monkey. Only now he’s sending out administration serrogates, as part of his typical propaganda dissemination campaign machine consisting of the equally lost MSM.

    This person is talking about the President of the United States spanking his own monkey! What a disgusting, discreditable, inflammatory and racist comment.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    werRu said:
    inflammatory and racist comment.

    ding, ding, ding….
    racer alert, racer alert…

  • billyweeds

    For a so-called “neutral” website, this grabs a huge amount of crazy right-winger racists. I am revolted and disgusted by the level of outright ignorance and racism espoused by 90 percent of these posters. Sick, sick, sick.

  • WCinWI

    skoorbekim said:
    ding, ding, ding….
    racer alert, racer alert…

    I am totally happy that Breitbart and other radio hosts have adopted the racer meme. :)

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Saw Breitbart on C Span last night .

    Could be another Limbaugh in influence one day .

    Good man .

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    billyweeds said:
    crazy right-winger racists. I am revolted and disgusted by the level of outright ignorance and racism espoused by 90 percent of these posters. Sick, sick, sick.

    Racism is the mating call of the Liberal loser…

  • lucky5

    WCinWI said:
    Dude – This admin should get a hold on its people. There is no reason why the world should know what exists in our capacity. Way to bungle this Obama. Congrats on the kill, but horrific on the PR.

    The enemy knows what was in the house. Its like you always report the enemies position over the radio, because if they intercept the radio transmission they will just be getting their own position.

  • Phocus2

    Alice67 said:
    Thank you President Obama!

    For following President Bush’s directions.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    “Bin Laden Intel Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’”

    I feel like this headline is confusing for the teagaggers.

    A “library” is a room or building that houses many books.

    “Books” are a number of sheets of paper bound together, holding printed information.

    I hope that was helpful.

  • Phocus2

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    “Bin Laden Intel Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’” I feel like this headline is confusing for the teagaggers. A “library” is a room or building that houses many books. “Books” are a number of sheets of paper bound together, holding printed information. I hope that was helpful.

    Do you ‘feel’ it might be confusing because you are one or hang out with real teabaggers? If you knew Tea Party folks, you would know they know about libraries and books. Or, maybe you are used to talking to students from todays public schools or universities.

  • ChrisNH

    I’m very pleased that Obamo’s ‘gutsy heroism’ has guaranteed an end to middle-eastern terrorism Everywhere.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Phocus2 said:
    Do you ‘feel’ it might be confusing because you are one or hang out with real teabaggers? If you knew Tea Party folks, you would know they know about libraries and books. Or, maybe you are used to talking to students from todays public schools or universities.

    dance for me, monkey-boy

  • “Real” American

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Saw Breitbart on C Span last night . Could be another Limbaugh in influence one day . Good man .

    HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. I see it doesn’t take someone with much intellect to enthrall you.

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    “Bin Laden Intel Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’” I feel like this headline is confusing for the teagaggers. A “library” is a room or building that houses many books. “Books” are a number of sheets of paper bound together, holding printed information. I hope that was helpful.

    The biggest problem for that demographic is that libraries are filled with facts. Their motto is “Facts? We make our own!”, and having real ones so conveniently accessible is……inconvenient….for them.

    I’m sure all the naysayers in this thread have thoroughly thought their objections through, but they may have overlooked the fact that the administration’s strategy is probably to put this out there to “shake the tree”. The NSA is quite good at monitoring electronic messaging and I would guess the “quail” in this case are scurrying for cover and lighting up the network with urgent messages. Good time to catch these birds running for cover.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Flynn/861335470 Kevin Flynn

    WCinWI said:
    Dude – This admin should get a hold on its people. There is no reason why the world should know what exists in our capacity. Way to bungle this Obama. Congrats on the kill, but horrific on the PR.

    Be sure to get a good night’s sleep tonight so that you’ll have lots of energy for job hunting tomorrow.

    Maybe ask your mom or dad to fix you a good breakfast, too, and to do your laundry while you’re out.

    Good luck, kid!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Flynn/861335470 Kevin Flynn

    Barack Must Go said:
    Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’.

    Just like in any small library, most of it’s content is either ancient history or fiction.

    This is merely Obama the loser still spanking his own monkey. Only now he’s sending out administration serrogates, as part of his typical propaganda dissemination campaign machine consisting of the equally lost MSM.

    Wow, you’ve read that material already? Impressive!

    Your spelling skills, on the other hand…

  • tnmccoy

    The clown show representative is divulging and bragging about how much Intel we got. Great. Now Al-Quaeda need only change all its plans and efforts to avoid the US. Nothing like warning the enemy in advance about what you know. Great job, you idiots.

  • tnmccoy

    Can Sandy Berger put any of this stuff in his pants and socks?

    I’d have felt safer if nothing was said about what was found in Osama’s house. Bragging about the ‘treasure trove’ will inflame Al-Quaeda far more than any release of Osama photos. The circus continues.

  • murphy0071

    Like most humans, this administration is falling all over itself to let people know how important getting Osama Bin Laden. Too bad they left valuable parts of special helicopter behind for the Pakistani scientists and engineers to examine and emulate or sell on the black market.

    If they think Bin Laden was some sort of genius master mind, there is someone even younger and better to take his place. When W missed at Tora Bora, that was the worst day on record.

    I am surprised that the fact he hid among women in a “Girls School” was not made a joke by someone.

    I hope that bag was made of chain mail.

  • “Real” American

    Kevin Flynn said:
    Wow, you’ve read that material already? Impressive! Your spelling skills, on the other hand…

    You’ll have to excuse BMG, our resident mental deficient. The quality of the intel coming from his mouth equals the quality of the intel that comes out of his ass.

  • mlb

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    “Bin Laden Intel Cache ‘The Size of A Small College Library’”

    I feel like this headline is confusing for the teagaggers.

    A “library” is a room or building that houses many books.

    “Books” are a number of sheets of paper bound together, holding printed information.

    I hope that was helpful.

    Yes, a library is that thing that is getting closed down (i.e extinct) because of state budget cuts to help fund the growing retirement packages and benefits of the nations unions. It is also being replaced at a quick rate so the younger generation can only fact check on You Tube and Facebook, perfect for the ‘progressive’ mind-think that feels everything that needs to be said, can be done in a 30 second sound bite or music video. They call that ‘news’ – it is arbitrary and can change at any given time depending on who is reporting it. It is full of books like Huckleberry Fin that have to constantly rewritten to adapt to racial and social sensibilities so as not to offend anyone with you know, history and big scary words. I hope that helps to clarify things a bit more.

  • TfT

    And the chest thumping continues; too funny.

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  • CAconservative

    Maybe this idiot president and his intelligence (oxymoron) team, could just run of some duplicates of what should have been kept secret, and Obimbo could personally hand it over to the terrorists so they can make the necessary changes.

  • VoiceofReason

    "Real" American said:
    You’ll have to excuse BMG, our resident mental deficient. The quality of the intel coming from his mouth equals the quality of the intel that comes out of his ass.

    Leave it to somebody with a gay baby avatar to concern themselves with what is coming from somebody’s rectum……..

  • VoiceofReason

    Good thing they only shot him in the face to get it too.

    Now had they poured water up his nose……….

  • george L

    There is no better psychological way to destroy a secretive organization than to tell them you now know all of their secrets.

    That will cause panic among them even more than they were able to create panic among the conservatives who post here.

  • X-3

    tnmccoy said:
    The clown show representative is divulging and bragging about how much Intel we got. Great. Now Al-Quaeda need only change all its plans and efforts to avoid the US. Nothing like warning the enemy in advance about what you know. Great job, you idiots.

    You captured the essence of the comment I was going to make. NEVER let the enemy know how much you know. Given that our intelligence infrastructure was wrecked by the Carter and Clitton adminstrations, we don’t have the capacity to see or understand the reflex of Al Qaeda when we told them we had this so-called “tresure trove” of data. The really smart move would have been to have left a 40′ deep crater where the compound used to be, in case there were underground caches the SEALs might have missed. It would also have been a smart move to have captured UBL alive and waterboarded his ass every fifteen minutes until we had every thought in his miserable head.

  • X-3

    WCinWI said:
    Dude – This admin should get a hold on its people. There is no reason why the world should know what exists in our capacity. Way to bungle this Obama. Congrats on the kill, but horrific on the PR.

    Please see my previous comment.

  • george L

    Interesting to see what all you “experts” think.

    Dead wrong, just like Bin Laden himself.

  • george L

    Easy to change all plans?
    Are you nuts?
    How about the need to change all personnel who are now known?
    How about the need to change all phones, e-mail addresses, code names, locations, financial arrangements, move weapons stockpiles and other materials, and the list goes on and on.
    In other words, restart from scratch without the financial support and guidance of the “founding father.”

    Now you see how it would be better to convince Al Qaeda that we know everything, even if we only learned a little.

    Remember, the ultimate purpose of intelligence is to destroy the enemy, and even better if the enemy self-destructs because we applied psychological pressure.

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