(New Republic) Eli J. Lake - One of the major problems confronting U.S. intelligence is that it has too much information - and most of it bad. Many in the U.S. intelligence community believe this is no accident. "Do the terrorists use disinformation? Absolutely," Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Porter Goss said at last week's joint intelligence hearings about September 11, 2001. Evidence has mounted that al Qaeda has a keen understanding of the U.S. intelligence-collection system. Among the numerous written materials confiscated from al Qaeda lairs in Afghanistan are handbooks on how to evade and deceive U.S. signal-interception systems, including detailed instructions on when various kinds of satellites orbit over specific land areas.
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