Although this is presented as a typical CIA bungle, it's not necessarily so.
Not necessarily so?
Seems like a major bungle to me.
This AQ Khan crazy has been extremely charitable with stolen goos - nuke tech in this case - and has generously shared with the likes of Iran, N Korea, Libya etc (could this august company get any worse?).
I believe the CIA was acting under political compulsions arising from America's Afghanistan ops against the Soviets which sorely needed Pak's help the.
The chickens are coming home to roost now.
Even as we speak, in the name of help on the war on terror, we've been cutting Pak too much slack on the all-important nuke proliferation issue, methinks.
Paging Valerie Plame!
How do you figure that this is not necessarily a CIA bungle?