Well has anybody ever heard of Herbert O. Yardley and The Cipher Bureau aka The Black Chamber? Since 1919 we been intercepting and reading other peoples mail. The Washington Navel Conference was notable. There is a saying knowledge is power and the Truth will set you free. knowing intentions of whom you have to deal with either friend or foe is just plain common sense. The Cipher Bureau would become the NSA. The NSA deals with codes and code breaking and intercepting communications. They listen that is all they do listen. And in the age of cell phones sat links ECHELON , just tries to make sense of the chatter. From a water boarded suspect in Gitmo, they got a name, from a name they got him on his cell phone once they gotten that, they were able to locate him, and he lead them to a house in Pakistan and the Seals to go and take care of the nations business. People should know when to shut up that includes the President. Talk about a loud mouth. Water boarding OBL would have gotten a lot of good intel, on where the rest are, and who are there bankers, thus more targets to be taken out. And OBL could go feet first into a furnace. Or just hung. What a waste of a decade + of hard intel work.
