This report confirms what the caller to Rush's show (w/ Roger Hedgecock filling in) said earlier in the week about the CIA (and the FBI and others) being left out of the loop because of the fear of leaks. It's all part of the Plame/Wilson legacy: rogue leftists at the CIA and State Department.
"Operational security was the paramount concern on our part and on the part of the Brits," one senior U.S. law enforcement official said. "We had a very small number of people who were actually read in on it and operating with full knowledge."
Even now, three days after British authorities arrested 24 suspects -- and two days after most of the suspects have been publicly named -- U.S. officials are tight-lipped about the most rudimentary details of the case, citing strict British secrecy laws and a desire to avoid the strained relations that followed U.S. leaks about the 2005 subway bombings.
Several sources suggested last week that the extensive secrecy irritated some officials who were kept out of the loop at intelligence and law enforcement agencies, but declined to discuss the tensions in detail.