There's a clown in the White House...
Posted on 03/25/2010 4:04:13 AM PDT by tobyhill
CIA officers in Afghanistan were so eager to meet the spy they believed would help them crack al-Qaida's leadership they planned a birthday celebration for his visit in December, current and former U.S. officials said.
A birthday cake was waiting.
But before they could even begin to question their golden source, he detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself and seven CIA employees in one of the deadliest attacks in the agency's history.
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old doctor who had been recruited by Jordanian intelligence officials, was really a double agent.
The account of the planned birthday gathering is the latest evidence that CIA officials at the Afghan base trusted the Jordanian and wanted to build rapport with him. It was confirmed by current and former officials briefed on the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
The bombing not only weakened U.S. intelligence operations, it touched off a sometimes contentious debate within the close-knit intelligence community about whether such emotions led the CIA to be too lax with its security.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has scoffed at suggestions that security lapses were to blame for the attack. But it remains unclear why there was such a large contingent around al-Balawi when the bomb erupted.
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The idiots paid for their laxity with their lives.
Typical Obama governance. Perhaps they could promise a clown and pony rides next time.
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Posted on January 10, 2010 4:59:28 PM PST by Cindy
I wonder if Obama sent out the invitations?
Your link wasn’t working.
Let me post it for you here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100325/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_cia_afghan_attack
It worked on my computer?
There's a clown in the White House...
I'm going back to my instinct and say one of the CIA agents killed was a mole but didn't know they were gonna be killed. Muzzies like "No witness" lives.
You’re right.
My computer switched servers.
toby’s link worked for me.
Yes, I was wrong.
Thank you.
Whodda thunk that there was a Chuck E. Cheese at Gitmo!
No problem.
His next trick: Making $14 trillion disappear.
LLS
Muslims: The Russian policy is bury them or deport them. Otherwise, you are just playing with the cancerous tumor attached to your child’s throat.
Wouldn't the C.I.A. be aware that Muslims do not celebrate birthdays, and thus a Birthday Cake would be absolutely inappropriate???
Some years back there was a cartoon in the New Yorker entitled “Good Cop, Great Cop.” It was a drawing of a guy in an interrogation room. You know, bare table, one overhead lamp with a conical shade, hanging on an electric wire. There’s a guy sitting at the table, with one cop pushing a pack of cigarettes at him. Another cop is coming in the door of the room holding a little plate, and he’s saying “Biscotti?”
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