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The web is buzzing with news this morning that the latest video of Osama bin Laden was possibly leaked by someone inside the U.S. intelligence community to the media. That leak reportedly led al Qaeda to shut down a hole in its Internet infrastructure, called “Obelisk,” thereby closing a fruitful window into the terror organization’s web activities. The New York Sun‘s Eli Lake and the Washington Post are both reporting on this unfortunate development this morning. Much of the attention thus far has focused on the damage done to our national security–and rightfully so. But there is potentially another twist to this. According to Lake’s account, the SITE Institute first provided the video and a transcript of it to the National Counterterrorism Center. Here is how Lake’s report explains it:

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