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SITE intelligence group, a small private company, secretly obtains an Osama bin Laden video from a supposedly secure Al Qaeda network a month before it is to be released. They've been monitoring Al Qaeda for years. They give the video to the Bush Whitehouse asking that they not make it public until Al Qaeda releases the video. What happens next?

Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.

The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.

Techniques that took years to develop are now useless.

Vote Republican, the party that can keep you safe from the terrorists.