[Pearls Before Swine]

the Jordanians believed that al-Balawi had been successfully reformed...

Riiiight.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Is it me or is MSM using this to release way to much info about our intel operations?

[Abathar]

Moral of the story?

Never trust a Muzzie involved in anything to do with a Jihad, period.

[Cicero]

I’m sorry for the CIA people who were killed, performing a dangerous job. But I must say I agree with those who have said that it’s not very good trade craft, admitting a double agent to a meeting without searching him first.

The FBI has had a number of Muslim double agents who turned out to be working for the other side. Some of them were apparently involved in the OTC bombing.

It is extremely difficult to be sure that a Muslim double agent is really working for you, and not the enemy. So you would think it advisable to take elementary precautions.

The CIA is PO’d with Obama about this. And rightly so. But I think they need to take a good look at themselves, as well. The story was that the CIA was completely incompetent at finding Saddam or any of his top people when we invaded Iraq, and the job only got done when military intelligence took over from them.

They have been politicized, and should now perhaps be wondering whether it was a smart idea, shilling for the left and undermining Bush and every other Republican president. Because Obama and Holder are not their friends.

[EricT.]

1. Catch a Jihadi.

2. Wring every last drop of information from him by whatever means necessary.

3. Kill him.

It’s the only safe way to deal with this threat.

[hennie pennie]

>>> "His specific mission, according to officials, was to find and meet Ayman al Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No. 2, also a physician." <<<<

Well, I guess we can take this to mean that OBL's BFF is still alive?

[LeonardFMason]

The way it ought to be:

To any supposed Muslim ally:

“We trust you. And we trust your wife, 3 children, 6 Aunts and 7 Uncles. We also trust your Grandparents and cousins. We trust them and WE KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE just in case we need to reach out to them for any reason. Did we say we trusted you?”

[rahbert]

its possibnle that al-Balawi was a legit mole until being turned by AQ and who made him put on the vest or his family
would suffer.

also the info released to the MSM is likely carefully vetted
so as to mislead AQ (at least I hope it is)..

[tobyhill]

This is extremely damaging. While our agents have been playing nice, Al-Qaeda have been infiltrating our intelligence. They are laughing their asses off now because they know that every informant we have will be exposed. The CIA will have to pull them from their assignments just to further vet them and then Al-Qaeda will know who they are due to their absence.
A simple failure to search has probably blown years of CIA infiltration into terrorist groups because there is now a loss of the trust factor.

[AdvisorB]

First off, I would be suspicious of anyone from Zarqawi’s hometown, Zarqa, Jordan. Secondly, I would make sure I had a proctologist at the gate everytime he came into camp for a visit. A Zarqa, Jordan native? He’d get a couple of extra layers of security before he entered the perimeter.