Bush outs ANOTHER undercover agent! Jesus, these guys suck at their job!

[zaj]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626850/

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week’s terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location.

Under pressure to justify the alerts in three Northeastern cities, U.S. officials confirmed a report by The New York Times that the man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, was the source of the intelligence that led to the decision.

A Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters on Friday that Khan, who was arrested in Lahore secretly last month, had been actively cooperating with intelligence agents to help catch al-Qaida operatives when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers.

Monday evening, after Khan’s name appeared, Pakistani officials moved him to a secret location. “After his capture , he admitted being an al-Qaida member and agreed to send e-mails to his contacts,” a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters. “He sent encoded e-mails and received encoded replies. He’s a great hacker, and even the U.S. agents said he was a computer whiz.”

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. U.S. officials subsequently confirmed the name to other news organizations Monday morning. None of the reports mentioned that Khan was working under cover at the time, helping to catch al-Qaida suspects.

[movonne]

1. Sucks is a very mild.....how about grossly incompetent psychos.

[Beam Me Up]

17. No. They INTENTIONALLY SUBVERTED ANOTHER TERRORIST INVESTIGATION

Bush, himself, no doubt, is incompetent to do anything but clear brush on his 'ranch' although I doubt he'd even do THAT if it wasn't a photo-op.

But there are intelligent people around him who KNOW that you don't EXPOSE UNDERCOVER ASSETS. They really do know this. That is, you don't EXPOSE them unless you WANT to undermine whatever efforts they are engaged in.

[proud patriot]

2. They use you and stab you in the back

Bastards

[Hoping4Change]

3. This is mind-numbing. Read what the article says about the

British operation.


"British police told Reuters on Friday that they had been forced to carry out the raids more hastily than planned, a day after Khan’s name appeared in the Times.

Such raids are usually carried out late at night or in the early morning, when suspects might be at home and less likely to resist. But showing clear signs of haste, British police pounced in daylight. Some suspects were taken in shops; others were caught in a high-speed car chase.

A British anti-terrorism police source would not comment on the reason for their quick action, but he confirmed the raids were carried out faster than planned: “It would be a fair assessment to say there was an urgency. Something can happen that prompts us to take action faster than we would,” he told Reuters."


Heads should be rolling.

[Hutzpa]

8. Maybe the road leads to WH

so they are doing their best to disrupt the process.

Just wearing my :tinfoilhat:

[Mika]

16. I agree with your point. Deliberate disruptions by Bushcrime inc.

Just like Iraq.

[Tight_rope]

13. Such Dumbasses.....

:spank:

[Walt Starr]

4. This pretty much proves LIHTI

The Let 9/11 happen through incompetence and may well have allowed another attack to happen through incompetence.

People, save this one, it'll go down the memory hole as soon as another attack happens.

[StandUpGuy]

10. Bush said yesterday.....

He wasn't going to stop looking for ways to harm the USA.

If you assume black is white and up is down, I think you'll see that Bush does everything according to plan.


Look at it this way.....If Bush needed an excuse to blow the cover of an informant that was getting to close for comfort what better way to do it.

TERROR Threat.

Kill Kerry's bounce.
Inject some fear in to the people. (never hurts)
Blow the informants cover as proof of your initial threat.



Bush is not INCOMPETENT he is EVIL !!!!!!!

as posted elsewhere

[TahitiNut]

5. Partisan political policy reigns supreme in the Busholini Casa Blanca

Never before have the national interests taken such a back seat to partisan political interests in the WHite House. These people make Nixon look like a founding father.

[calimary]

6. I swear, bush never met a pooch he didn't screw.

[Hutzpa]

7. LOL!!!! sorry but I have to,

what a bunch of toe-rags, maybe it was done deliberately because they felt this guy hasn't deliver, so they do what they do best out him.


He probably has failed to deliver Osama so this is their way of paying back.



:mad:

[Tight_rope]

14. DING DING DING....BINGO....They didn't find OSAMA in time ....

this was just a warning...I wonder what the next move will be...Bomb Pakistan.

[gratuitous]

19. Yup, they burned an asset for Bush's short-term gain

I wonder how many Al Qaeda infiltrators we're monitoring? My guess is not many, and burning one of our assets was probably an extravagance of outsize proportions.

[troublemaker]

9. Maybe this kind of thing is why we have no human intelligence...

[merh]

11. Oh sure, let's piss off the only nation that we any type of a

relationship with, why not! Sounds to me that the British intelligence folks may be pretty angry with "the weed that would be king" and his band of rethugs.

The admin is uncheney'ng believable! :nuke:

[Tight_rope]

12. "computer whiz"....he must have gotten one of those outsourced jobs

that helped him to advance his career.

[Hoping4Change]

15. You know that is an interesting slant even though I am aware

of the sarcasm. I wonder if there are geopolitical consequences for outsourcing high tech jobs?

[genius]

18. We need bumper stickers.

"Resident AWOL: outing our CIA agents to our enemies."

"Was America safe on Bush's watch? 9/11/01"

[MaryH]

20. KICK

[DeepModem Mom]

21. kick