Suicide bomber was CIA double agent. Wonder if he is the only one? Have there been others?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/01/eveningnews/main6045803.shtml

New Clues about CIA Suicide Bomber

Taliban Sources Tell CBS News Haqqani Network behind Base Attack that Killed 7 Agents

(CBS) Security may be tighter at the base Friday, but U.S. officials still don't know exactly how a suicide bomber managed to get in without being searched, killing seven CIA agents including the base commander.

One former intelligence official tells CBS News initial reports indicate the bomber was being recruited as a CIA source.

And a Pakistani Taliban commander Friday praised what he called their "double agent." He said the bomber was avenging the killing of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike last August.

Taliban sources tell CBS News the notorious Haqqani network was behind the attack, using Afghan operatives with the help from colleagues in Pakistan.

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Wonder if they would tell us if there were more in the past? I think it may be time for a Congressional investigation to get to the bottom of this.

[madokie]

1. After this fiasco the cia should be abolished

When it comes right down to it the cia doing the moneyed interest's bidding is mostly why the people over there hate us to begin with.

[hootinholler]

2. ! n/t

[LoZoccolo]

3. Do you think we should have no intelligence agency at all? n/t

[el_bryanto]

6. Good obvious question. Let's see what the answer is. n/t

[arcadian]

8. The Directorate of Operations should be abolished.

[nashville_brook]

11. yeppers. intel and covert ops are separate and diametrically opposed objectives.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/122209a.html

an illustation of the problem presented by mixing intel and covert ops:

from
Break the CIA in Two

Think about it for a minute. You are ordered and given funding to conduct Predator attacks on “suspected al-Qaeda bases” in Pakistan. (U.S. armed forces cannot do it since the Pentagon is not supposed to be striking countries with whom we are not at war.) You salute, find some contractors to help, and conduct those attacks.

The President then asks his CIA morning briefer about the effectiveness of the drone attacks, including the longer-term political as well as military effects. When the briefer checks with the substantive analysts watching Pakistan, he learns that the attacks are very effective — indeed, the very best recruitment tool Osama bin Laden and the Taliban could imagine.

Jihadists are flocking to Pakistan and Afghanistan like moths to a light blub.

Problem. Do you think mealy-mouthed CIA Director Leon Panetta will have the courage to whisper that unwelcome finding to the President? Suppose Gen. David Petraeus or Gen. Stanley McChrystal find out.

[NNN0LHI]

9. CIA is only one of over a dozen US intelligence agencies

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/overview.pdf

[indepat]

7. Who would've thunk it?

:P

[Soylent Brice]

4. K&R

[zeemike]

5. And I am sure they are wondering if they have some now among

their recruits that will turn on them.
Paranoia runs deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when your always afraid
Step out of line
They will come and blow you away.

[Better Today]

10. Congressional investigation??? WTF. PLEASE allow, insist, and demand

that they take care of HCR, jobs stimulus, bank reform, SEC/WallStreet reform.

People who are being used, willingly or not, by one or both parties in a war are likely going to get pissed about something regarding one side or the other. Perhaps we didn't keep a promise to this person, or we killed someone he thought should live, or perhaps, as US soldiers seem to do, he was just treated like crap even though he was putting himself at risk for us. I don't need to know, people die in war, that's the thing.

You want Congressional hearings about war problems/atrocities? Have one about how it is we keep killing innocents in drone attacks aimed inappropriately and overzealous house raids in the middle of the night.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Who do you think we have been getting out intelligence from to target those drone attacks?

Probably from guys like this double agent.

See the problem there?

Don