[Grut]

The Washington Post has some credibility, and this sounds like the kind of screwup -- and coverup -- we can expect when government goes Dramatic. It's a point I made often enough about Padilla, that we had no way of even knowing that the guy they were holding was Padilla and not some Hispanic janitor they'd arrested by mistake.

[gr8eman]

The Washington Post has some credibility

Sure...the WaPo has the utmost credibility in nitpicking the government's mistakes when their political opponents are in charge. However you would never read a story like this when Billy Jeff Bob was in charge.

[Last Exit]

I think Padilla was a real threat. When you read how they got him, it seals up any doubts.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It doesn't help that the CIA is packed to the gills with liberals that would love to see the War on Terrorism fall flat on its face. To that end, the CIA is happy to make a few mistakes and look dumb for a day. Then they can turn around and blame it on White House pressure to capture suspects and Bush is the one who gets hounded mercilessly for the rest of his days over it while the CIA director gets a few bad editorials in the Sunday paper.

Funny how these stories were never out when Bubba was president. The CIA and FBI were running interference for all kinds of domestic and foreign policy adventures that he was into but the newspapers barely said anything, except to paint the critics as nutcases. The only critics of Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, and Clinton's shifting of classified material over to Commerce so that it would no longer be classified, were conservatives in the non-traditional media who were roundly touted as whacko hate-mongers who were just out to create any scandal possible against Klinton.

[Chgogal]

How many times do you hop on a bus to Macedonia because of a spat with your wife while unemployed to let off steam?

This whole thing reeks of major CIA/State Department leak campaign and combined with the Plame Blame Game and authorized CIA smear books published during an election year is quite nauseating. One would think the DNC hired the CIA as of a midterm election year dirty tricks operator or something. Here is a Guradian link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1390256,00.html

It's interesting that the CIA cannot differentiate between a real passport or fake one. That's what my $40 billion dollars purchases. Thank God for the Hellfire Hit this week otherwise I would be so ticked!

Also Dana Priest knows all these poor innocent CIA victims. Wonder if this great reporter can locate Osama for us instead? It might save a few lives?