Now this is an interesting article. Did politics intervene to alter the picture?
Try this:
A comprehensive and systematic examination of those documents could give U.S. intelligence officials—and eventually the American public—a better understanding of al Qaeda’s leadership, its affiliates, its recruitment efforts, its methods of communication; a better understanding, that is, of the enemy America has fought for over a decade now, at a cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives. Incredibly, such a comprehensive study—a thorough “document exploitation,” in the parlance of the intelligence community—never took place.
Link:http://www.weeklystandard.com/al-qae...article/804366