The Meaning of Al Qaida's Double Agent
In today's reading assignment, former CIA operative Reuel Marc Gerecht offers thoughts similar to our recent post on Al Qaida's recent double-agent operation. As he notes in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, the terrorist group demonstrated an impressive counter-intelligence capability with a suicide attack on a CIA compound in Afghanistan. It is a capability we failed to consider--with deadly consequences.
posted by George Smiley at
8:29 PM
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As the WSJ editorial so correctly points out, operational compartmentalization truly broke down. No matter how much he was "trusted", allowing seven officers to be within killing distance was insanity.
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