{"id":1689,"date":"2005-06-28T01:12:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T05:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/intelligence_at\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T01:12:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T05:12:36","slug":"intelligence_at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/intelligence_at\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the terror alert level was raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8380365\/\">late 2003<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CIA analysts mistakenly thought they&#8217;d discovered a mother lode of secret al-Qaida messages. They thought they had found secret messages on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language television news channel, hidden in the moving text at the bottom of the screen, known as the &#8220;crawl,&#8221; where news headlines are summarized.<br \/>\nU.S. officials tell NBC News that CIA experts \ufffd technicians working for the Directorate of Science and Technology \ufffd thought they had found numbers embedded in the crawl signaling upcoming attacks; dates and flight numbers, and geographic coordinates for targets, including the White House, Seattle&#8217;s Space Needle, even the tiny town of Tappahanock, Va. What the analysts thought they had found was something called &#8220;steganography&#8221; \ufffd messages hidden inside a video image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s reassuring to know that the CIA TIVOs are up and running.  As long as they maintain ther live feed to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear facility surveillance cameras, we&#8217;ll be just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/intelligence_at\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Intelligence At Work\"><p>How the terror alert level was raised in late 2003: CIA analysts mistakenly thought they&#8217;d discovered a mother lode of secret al-Qaida messages. They thought they had found secret messages on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language television news channel, hidden in the moving text at the bottom of the screen, known as the &#8220;crawl,&#8221; where news headlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}