Charlie, here are the sources on Hatch the Leaker, but if you have more archival work for me to do it will have to wait till tomorrow .

BTW, this leak business is standard operating procedure and apparently we managed to give ourselves away to AQ on more than one occasion (cue for Clintonian laughter ñ what a joke! We are simply sloppy, know what I mean, nudge nudge, know what I mean?)

From Insight magazine, Nov 2. 2001:

“The most damaging leaks appear to have taken place long before Sept. 11. One was a 2000 report that U.S. intelligence was intercepting al-Qaeda terrorist chief Osama bin Laden’s satellite-telephone conversations and keeping track of his whereabouts within a 30-meter range by tracing the signals. The leak, intelligence officials tell Insight, had devastating effects in the hunt for bin Laden.

(snip)

The worst operational leak after Sept. 11, sources say, came not from the Pentagon but from a senator who just had received a classified briefing, prompting President George W. Bush to restrict full intelligence access on fighting terrorism to only a few leaders in Congress

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=138298&

Identity of the leaking Senator:

From The Las Vegas Review-Journal

September 14, 2001

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, raised eyebrows this week when he commented that U.S. intelligence had intercepted communications Tuesday suggesting terrorist Osama bin Laden’s organization was involved in the attacks. Several years ago, monitoring of bin Laden telephone conversations dried up after the U.S. intelligence effort was leaked and reported.

http://billstclair.com/911timeline/2001/lasvegasreviewjournal091401.html