MAYBE THIS ISN'T SIGNIFICANT

(h/t Stephanie Miller Show)

We know that then-President Bush said in early 2002 that he wasn't that interested in Osama Bin Laden and today I learned that in late 2005, the CIA disbanded its Bin Laden unit, known as Alec Station.

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: July 4, 2006
NY Times

WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.

UPDATE: Commenter Stopthenonsense,Stop on this POLITICO thread posted a link to a Weekly Standard article the supports the contention that getting OBL became a secondary issue for the Bush regime;:

Inside the Oval Office
President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.
1:54 PM, Sep 13, 2006 • By FRED BARNES
THE WEEKLY STANDARD

WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism. Here's how President Bush explained this Tuesday: "This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."