Latest Bush Blunder: A Mole Made Public (Conason)

[alarcojon]

Conason's usual good insights and background.

There is no question about who perpetrated the leak. On Aug. 8, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice admitted that the administration had disclosed Khan’s arrest to The Times "on background." Experts around the world are still astonished by this reckless decision.

"The whole thing smacks of either incompetence or worse," said Tim Ripley, a security expert who writes for Jane’s Defense publications. "You have to ask: what are they doing compromising a deep mole within al Qaeda, when it’s so difficult to get these guys in there in the first place?"

...snip...

It is encouraging that American intelligence agencies and their allies in Britain and Pakistan have begun to roll up Al Qaeda cells. It is troubling that their efforts were compromised for political advantage.

http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp

[Beetwasher]

1. And the American News Media Simply Yawns

as the terrorists win another battle courtesy of Bushco. and Iraq is going up in flames...

[Insomnicole]

2. Thank you, Joe.

But the problem during the months before 9/11 was not the government’s failure to post constant vague alerts of impending disaster, true as they eventually would have proved to be. The problem was that the agencies and individuals responsible for protecting the United States, including the President, failed to mobilize and act together, despite many warnings from within and outside the government.

I think I'm going to have to get this tattooed on myself somewhere so I can just point to it the next time an administration apologist says "Well, if they didn't say anything and then there *was* an attack, you libruls would be whining about *that* too."

[alarcojon]

3. It does sum things up well, doesn't it?

and welcome to DU!

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