[StJacques]

"Wouldn't "no comment" be a better answer?"

That was exactly my first thought Aquinasfan. Why open our mouths and tell them to start looking?

But what if what we really have is some expanded technological surveillance capabilities, like listening devices, phone taps, satellite phone intercept capability, etc., rather than a human source? Wouldn't it be best in that event to tell the world that we DO have a source so that Al-Qaeda in Iraq will begin turning on itself?

You never know in the intelligence game.

[definitelynotaliberal]

"Why open our mouths and tell them to start looking?"

I can answer that one. We are talking about savage beasts. There's no such thing as starting to look. The philosophy is kill-first-praise-allah-later. Let them go to town killing each other. I'm enjoying this show.

[hardworking]

You never know in the intelligence game

Maybe they want these thugs to become paranoid and start looking at each other askance. Nothing like suspicion of each other to help undermine a group.