[True Capitalist]

"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?

The NYT once again committed treason and Kahn's name may have been leaked by someone in Pakistan's ISI, but if there was a sting operation going on in Pakistan then Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge also gave out to much information last Sunday when he heightened security. I specifically remember Ridge mentioning that new information, particularly "out of Pakistan" justified the alert. By being so specific in the alert, Ridge let the terrorists (and the media) know too much.

Terrorists involved in the planning and/or surveillance of the specific targets named by Ridge combined with Ridge pointing to Pakistan, would have had a clear indication that a colleague of theirs with this knowledge in Pakistan had been compromised.

Thanks to the "dots" laid out by our Secretary of "Homeland Security", the terrorists could have reasonably realized that communicating with Kahn would be a risk to their operation.

[Nexus]

Here is the passage from Ridge's last Sunday press conference in which you're referencing:

QUESTION: Were the recent arrests in Pakistan a key contributing factor to the information flow that you're getting now?

RIDGE: Well, we will not comment on the specific sources, but let me just go back again and say the coalition that we have built, and the alliances we have built, have been instrumental and very much a part of our intelligence-gathering operation.

It was a media folk which asked him the damn question, and he responded about as ambiguously as humanly possible. Ridge DID NOT point out anything. The only dots being laid out were by the media, friend...

Transcript: Ridge Raises Threat Level

[OldFriend]

It's my observation that Jane's has gone over to the dark side. They do a lot of criticizing of this administration. Sometimes subtle sometimes quite overt.