And when you leak it to the media for political reasons.....it instantly becomes useless as intelligence.......
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I guess it all depends on what you're
USING the intelligence for. If it was to slay baddies and use definition 1 of 'prosecute' in the war on terror (i.e. kill people and break things, or kill things and break people if the situation calls for it) then yeah, the intelligence just got spoiled big-time.
If however, the usefulness was based on how well it propped up the flailing administration of the Islamofascist in Chief and sufficiently muddy the waters where homeland security is concerned to squeeze a few extra points out of the "effin' retards" (Dim'Rat activists, according to Rahmbo Emmanuel) over the next few polling cycles, then it'll probably succeed brilliantly.