Does this surprise anyone, given the way in which the war against al Qaeda morphed into a quagmire in Iraq?
The Times published a story Monday saying U.S. officials had disclosed that a man arrested in Pakistan was the source of the bulk of information leading to the security alerts. The Times identified him as Khan, although it did not say how it had learned his name. ...
Intelligence and security experts said they were surprised that Washington would reveal information that could expose the name of a source during an ongoing law enforcement operation.
“If it’s true that the Americans have unintentionally revealed the identity of another nation’s intelligence agent, who appears to be working in the good of all of us, that is not only a fundamental intelligence flaw. It’s also a monumental foreign relations blunder,” security expert Paul Beaver, a former publisher of Jane’s Defense Weekly, told Reuters.
"Unintentional?" After all the "terror alerts" corresponding to drops in the polls by Bush, are we to believe it was unintentional?
As others are pointing out, this is another instance of Bush compromising the struggle against those who attacked us on 9/11, and is why he does not deserve anyone's vote.
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