Now it's time to move to the other major leak case [View All]

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This leak has been discussed along the fringes of the media (It's a favorite topic of Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes though) and that's the leak of the undercover mole in Al-Qaeda "Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan." Now, maybe this has been talked about at length in the American media and I missed it (since I'm in Asia). But through streaming and reading on-line I see and hear almost nothing.

A little on this to the less informed:
The New York Times published a story on Monday saying U.S. officials had disclosed that a man arrested secretly in Pakistan was the source of the bulk of information leading to the security alerts. The newspaper named him as Khan, although it did not say how it had learned his name. U.S. officials subsequently confirmed the name to other news organizations on Monday morning. None of the reports mentioned that Khan was working under cover at the time, helping to catch al Qaeda suspects."
"The whole thing smacks of either incompetence or worse," said Tim Ripley, a security expert who writes for Jane's Defense publications. "You have to ask: what are they doing compromising a deep mole within al Qaeda, when it's so difficult to get these guys in there in the first place?"

The whole article can be found at: http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/pravda.htm