Over the last decade of its Clintonization, the CIA (and the NSA) seem more and more inclined to harbor leakers, spillers, and PR agents. Which in itself provides ample evidence that these agencies are no longer in the business of intelligence, but have become Beltway bureaucracies.
Another Clinton legacy.
Not necessarily. One of the Fox news hours last night hosted a convincing guest on (former CIA) who said that the CIA was geared up for the cold war, not for one of this type. He thought that it seemed probable OBL had gotten out of the region by sea. Another guest right after the shoe incident said that the most likely course of action for OBL would be to slip away by sea through Sri Lanka (and that was when the experts were still insisting that that guy was acting on his own). This particular man, very credible, thought it was no accident that the show incident with the Sri Lankan connection happened soon after reports of OBL getting away by sea. Sorry, I forgot both of these gentlemen's names. Personally, I'm not sure what to think, but there seems to be plenty of evidence to make several, contradictory, cases. I distrust ABC as much as anyone, but I'm not at all sure that the CIA has gotten its act straight either.