[gcruse]

Saddam's "Jaguar" phone system, which is a fact I don't think we needed to know.)

You know, I was thinking about that at the time. I we had broken the code
of  what Saddam thinks is a secure system, and the attack on the restaurant
didn't kill him, the intel takes a big hit.  I thought Fox was being  stupid.

[Warhead W-88]

Yeah. Well, look, it's the frickin' politicians' and spooks' fault if they TOLD Fox about it, you know? THEY have the responsibility to protect secrets. If they tell a reporter about it... come on. It's not really the reporter's job to be more concerned about secrets than they are.

'Course, it could have been disinformation, but I just don't see the freaking point of that. Eh-- maybe to protect the real source, a human source that ratted out Saddam. So maybe they gave this bogus technical measure as the source in order to take the heat off the true human source.

Who, I'm guessing, was Tariq Aziz. For some reason, I just always expected this dope to be the one to betray Saddam.

[Warhead W-88]

And it might have been a lie to get Saddam to stop using a phone system they COULDN'T decrypt. So they say, "Oh, we're decrypting his Jaguar," to induce him to switch to something they're able to break.