http://spytalkblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/cias-fatal-welcome-mat-for-triple-agent.html
“CIA’s Fatal Welcome Mat for Triple Agent Recounted”
SNIPPET: “Perhaps the most riveting passage in the second installment of Joby Warrick’s new book on the tragic deaths of seven CIA personnel in Afghanistan 18 months ago is his description of the triple agent’s last 100 yards into the base at Khost.
The ease with which Humam al-Balawi persuaded the CIA to let him onto the base without being patted down has been much remarked upon — and criticized — by veteran operatives who blamed CIA management for letting someone with no field experience run the operation.”
Note: Video included.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-punishment-work-nypd/story?id=14810046
“Brian Ross Investigates CIA Bomber”
“CIA Punishment? Go Work with NYPD”
By MATTHEW COLE
Oct. 31, 2011
SNIPPET: “A senior CIA officer whose operational misjudgment contributed to one of the deadliest days in CIA history was recently assigned to a post with the New York City police department as a result of his mistakes, according to current and former officials.
According to two former officials, the posting marks the most significant sanction handed out for the December 2009 suicide bombing by an al Qaeda double agent at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees, and acts as an unofficial punishment for the officer’s role in the operation. The CIA officer had been one of several high-ranking officials who approved the meeting at which the double agent detonated his bomb.”
SNIPPET: “The CIA official declined a request for an interview. ABC News is withholding his name at the request of the CIA, because his identity is classified as he remains undercover.
The NYPD did not respond to several requests for comment. The CIA refused to comment on the record.”