Could The CIA Have Achieved What Al-Qaeda Did? -- The Telegraph
The audacious al-Qaeda attack in Khost, Afghanistan and the failures to detect the Detroit bomb plot are indications of a broken CIA, writes Toby Harnden in Washington
At the George Bush Center for Intelligence – better known as CIA headquarters – in Langley, Virginia there is a crisis of confidence. Last week, seven of its personnel returned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware in flag-draped coffins.
They were killed in an audacious attack in which a triple agent detonated a suicide bomb as he was debriefed at a remote base in Khost, Afghanistan. The agent, an al-Qaeda operative working for the Jordan's General Intelligence Service (GID) which in turn facilitated his working for the CIA, has been identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian trainee doctor.
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My Comment: Why should we be surprised? Investigations of CIA personnel .... from those who were involved with enhanced interrogation techniques to renditions, courtroom trials for the 9/11 leaders, nonstop criticism from much of the main stream media of CIA operations, release of Guantanamo detainees who have now gone back to the battlefield to fight and plot against Americans .... yup .... if I was working for the CIA I would be experiencing a crisis of confidence.