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Has anyone got a citation for "U.S. intelligence agencies had closely studied electrical emissions when scouting Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan" Being v

Has anyone got a citation for "U.S. intelligence agencies had closely studied electrical emissions when scouting Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan" Being very liberal with the truth, using a radio scanner could be classed as "closely studying electrical emissions". Firstly, to get a blender's electrical signature you'd need to be pretty close to the blender, even along the transmission line. And I think it would be tough to tell one person's blender motor from any other cheap motor powering kitchen gadgetry in the local area.

polytely 6y ago
A cursory duckduckgo reveals: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/to-hunt-osama-bin-laden-satellites-watched-over-abbottabad-pakistan-and-navy-seals/2013/08/29/8d32c1d6-10d5-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/to-hu... which in turn links to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-flew-stealth-drones-into-pakistan-to-monitor-bin-laden-house/2011/05/13/AF5dW55G_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-f... Which talks specifically about the RQ-170 Sentinel monitoring electronic transmissions in the area, so it might be conflating the two? The information about the Sentinel comes out of this leaked black budget: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black... If I recall correctly Bin Laden mostly used couriers to transmit information and didn't use much tech because they were well aware that it would be a huge security risk. This Intercept article based on leaked internal NSA newsletters has a lot of juicy details: https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/snowden-osama-bin-laden-raid/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/snowden-osama-bin-laden-...

polytely 6y ago

A cursory duckduckgo reveals: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/to-hunt-osama-bin-laden-satellites-watched-over-abbottabad-pakistan-and-navy-seals/2013/08/29/8d32c1d6-10d5-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/to-hu... which in turn links to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-flew-stealth-drones-into-pakistan-to-monitor-bin-laden-house/2011/05/13/AF5dW55G_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-f... Which talks specifically about the RQ-170 Sentinel monitoring electronic transmissions in the area, so it might be conflating the two? The information about the Sentinel comes out of this leaked black budget: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black... If I recall correctly Bin Laden mostly used couriers to transmit information and didn't use much tech because they were well aware that it would be a huge security risk. This Intercept article based on leaked internal NSA newsletters has a lot of juicy details: https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/snowden-osama-bin-laden-raid/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/snowden-osama-bin-laden-...