Did the US defeat wiretapping success?

[P.J. Ponder]

Senator Hatch was interviewed by national media on Tuesday and stated that
the US government had voice intercepts of calls talking about success with
two targets.  He was later criticized for talking about the intercepts. He
is a member of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.


On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> As far as I heard from the news (who knows how
> much news meet reality...) the CIA and NSA could
> not find a real correlation between the terrorists
> and Bin Laden (or at least they couldn't within the
> first days after).
>
> German news magazine DER SPIEGEL (current issue, p. 27)
> reports, that the german intelligence service BND
> (Bundesnachrichtendienst) did find that link.
>
> Usually wiretapping people of Bin Laden's organization is
> found as good as useless, because these people keep
> strict discipline when using phones. In contrast to that,
> some of them dropped discipline after the attacks.
> They did jubilate and strut with their attacks. This
> was wiretapped by BND and forwarded to the US. The
> BND asked the US to keep this absolutely secret, because
> the BND hoped to catch more of these phone calls and
> thus more information, what obviously
> wouldn't work if it got publicly known.
>
> US senator Orrin Hatch is said to have publicly revealed
> this wiretapping success, thus sealing this source of
> information.
>
> Can anyone confirm this story?
>
> What's the use of a crypto-ban and wiretapping, or
> an intelligence service in general, if
> american authorities behave like this?
>
> Hadmut
>
>
>
>
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