[Diogenesis]

CIA/DOD -> Sec. State —> Huma -> Hamas -> Mullahs

Nothing to see HERE, America.

Move along.

[Oldexpat]

Hezbollah hacked into the billing phone records and somehow identified CIA used numbers and tied them back to the agents. In the rush to get new humint sources in the ME, the CIA abandon the caution of correct craft and used the phone system.