U.S. officials seize bin Laden hard drives and data, hit “mother lode”

"Can you imagine what's on Osama bin Laden's hard drive?"

That's the question a U.S. official posed to Politico recently in an article that revealed the government is now in possession of the deceased terrorist leader's computers.

The Navy SEALs who infiltrated bin Laden's compound Sunday, killing him and several others, also confiscated computer drives and disks that the U.S. official said was "the mother lode of intelligence." The contents of those machines are currently being torn apart at a secret location in Afghanistan.

"It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable," the official told Politico.

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Celebrities and the CIA

A recent video captured by TMZ shows Latin lovely Gloria Estefan on the go and still on her tour. Estefan answered routine questions about her career, remaining friendly and keeping a smile on her face even as she walked quickly from one place to another.

The idle chitchat took a strange turn, however, when the unseen paparazzo asked the singer about a job offer she once received.

“Is it true that you turned down a career with the CIA?” 

“That’s true,” Estefan answered without a hint of irony or humor. You can view the one-minute video here.

Think the question, and subsequent answer, is a bit odd? I can do you one better: Estefan isn’t at all the first celeb who’s claimed to have been tapped by the CIA.

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