"War on Terra": Double-Agent Outed???

[CagedTroll]

[Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now]..., if the "liberal media" ever catches onto it! (If they pick it up this week I'll be amazed!)

In other words, the Bush administration just blew the cover of one of the most important assets inside al-Qaeda that the US has ever had.

The announcement of Khan's name forced the British to arrest 12 members of an al-Qaeda cell prematurely, before they had finished gathering the necessary evidence against them via Khan. Apparently they feared that the cell members would scatter as soon as they saw that Khan had been compromised. (They would have known he was a double agent, since they got emails from him Sunday and Monday!) One of the twelve has already had to be released for lack of evidence, a further fall-out of the Bush SNAFU. It would be interesting to know if other cell members managed to flee.

Why in the world would Bush administration officials out a double agent working for Pakistan and the US against al-Qaeda? In a way, the motivation does not matter. If the Reuters story is true, this slip is a major screw-up that casts the gravest doubts on the competency of the administration to fight a war on terror. Either the motive was political calculation, or it was sheer stupidity. They don't deserve to be in power either way.

[CagedTroll]

Okay, so I'm amazed.

Wolf Blitzer tried to pick up the story this morning in his interview with Condi Rice. He left out a huge chunk of it (the premature arrests the Limeys were forced to make) and he was satisfied with her non-answers (there was a whole lot of "I don't know" or "I don't want to discuss that" from her in response to specific questions).

It quickly became apparent that the purpose for her interview was to push talking points, not to deal with the details.