The latest media scoop about the internal workings of the US intelligence community has convinced officials they have a new leaker feeding information to journalists, reports said Tuesday, 5 August 2014.<\/p>\n
The concerns came after The Intercept, a news site that has access to documents from known leaker Edward Snowden, published new revelations about the scope of the US terrorism watchlist.<\/p>\n
The Intercept report was “obtained from a source in the intelligence community.” Previously, it has not hidden when Snowden was its source, suggesting the latest scoop came from someone else.<\/p>\n
News network CNN, citing only “US officials,” reported that national security officers fear that they are now faced with a second source leaking classified intelligence from within their own ranks.<\/p>\n
The Intercept, which is edited by US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first revealed some of Snowden’s secret documents, published a 12-page text marked “secret\/noforn,” meaning it is not to be shared with allied governments and entitled: “Directorate of Terrorist Identities Strategic Accomplishments 2013.”<\/p>\n
The document is dated August 2013, which is after Snowden left Hawaii –where he was working as a contractor for the National Security Agency –and fled first to Hong Kong and then to Russia.<\/p>\n
Produced by the National Counterterrorism Center, the document reveals that there are at least 680,000 names of individuals around the world that US officials suspect of involvement in terrorism.<\/p>\n
Of these, 280,000 people have “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” Others are alleged members or supporters of groups regarded as terrorist by Washington such as Al-Qaeda or Hamas.<\/p>\n
A larger database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment or TIDE, not has a million names, officials told CNN.<\/p>\n
The Intercept report also revealed that since President Barack Obama took office he has boosted the number of suspects on the “no-fly list” banning them from aviation ten fold to 47,0000.<\/p>\n
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