A prominent Kenyan lawyer and legislator says that the Kenyan intelligence service warned U.S. intelligence about the plot several months before August 7th, and in November of 1997 a man named Mustafa Mahmoud Said Ahmed, who worked for one of Osama bin Laden's companies, walked into the United States Embassy in Nairobi and told American intelligence of a plot to blow up the building.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, warned that foreign intelligence services might swoop in and recruit furloughed C.I.A. workers.
And even if ABB left some tracks that could (and perhaps should) have warned the intelligence services of his plans (NOU 2012), his lone-wolf status made him more difficult to detect by intelligence alone.
But he also warned that intelligence officials have an obligation to tell the truth about surveillance in their public statements.
"Under the various Geneva Conventions and protocols," London warned its intelligence and security officers, "all prisoners, however they are described, are entitled to the same levels of protection.
Under pressure from the Obama administration, which has warned that intelligence cooperation between the countries could be affected if the secret documents are released, the government in London has refused to make the documents public.
There's reporting that the British and some other European governments had warned the intelligence community back in 2015, so it's hard to understand why it took until July 2016 for the FBI to open an investigation.
While in their positions, both received classified information regarding Trump; their dilemma is that they can't publicly reveal all they know, including why the CIA warned Israeli intelligence about him.
But, he warns: "The intelligence community generally favors the individual organization that they've already collected the most information on.
The group warns that intelligence authorities could use the campaigns that some associated with Anonymous are using to discredit or imprison members of the group.
