[Marine_Uncle]

Keep the faith. It is easy at times to just get totally and royally pissed off.
And South. On this one I can't go along with your suggestion. In order to bug them, they would have to be put to sleep for a short time to somehow implant a bug whatever form that may take. And surely they will be catscanned etc., to make sure nothing is inside them once returned to Iran.
At least our military have made it clear they are not at all pleased with letting such a high value clown be returned.
But if we got all the stuff that is in this article it would appear we have who is doing what pretty well mapped out. And for all we know, the "high ranking agent" may have been instructed as to what to tell the Iranians he reports to, that the gig is up, and they will be closed down by force in the months to come, or something to that effect.
It may not be as bad as it first appears.

[Billthedrill]

I hope you're right. The difficulty with this sort of thing is that one only ever gets the tip of the iceberg even if one is in the intel loop. Distilled through the press, who frankly never do understand matters military anyway, white can sometimes seem black.

I am a bit concerned, however, at the public impression this is making and whether the Iraqi government is aware of it. To release men who have done what these men have demands a quid pro quo that is considerably more than a promise to negotiate. It had better by God be worth it because one of those quids is American blood.