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2007-11-04 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-04 02:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The CIA director's comments are a tacit admission that the agency continues to have a difficult time planting spies inside or close to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

Tacit admission, or blinding flash of the obvious? I'd venture al Qaeda hasn't penetrated JSOC just yet either. If Mike Hayden said, you can take it to the bank.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-11-04 07:31|| 2007-11-04 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Besoeker,
Don't be so sure. Remember there was an Egyptian who was a language teacher at Ft. Bragg that turned out to work for AQ (this was before 9/11).

The best intelligence we tend to get (this was true in the Cold War too) is when insiders "come in from the cold". See "Agent Solo" during the Cold War.

This requires patience and a good deal of luck. This seems to have happened in Iraq, but not in Pak land.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-11-04 13:27|| 2007-11-04 13:27|| Front Page Top

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