I like how the atom bomb mess was after a CIA officer mistakenly sent an Iranian agent information that could help identify nearly every one of the spy agency's undercover operatives in Iran, the Iranian being a known double agent who turned over the data to Iranian authorities, which they used it to dismantle the CIA's spy network inside the country and arrest or possibly kill an unknown number of U.S. agents.
It is time for the Adults to be in charge - that is what our media told us.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-intel4jan04,0,6972451.story?track=tottextFrom the Los Angeles Times
THE WORLD
CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed, but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends.
By Josh Meyer
Times Staff Writer
January 4, 2006
WASHINGTON — In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
The clandestine CIA effort was just one of many alleged intelligence failures during the Bush administration, according to the book.
Risen also cites intelligence gaffes that fueled the Bush administration's case for war against Saddam Hussein, spawned a culture of torture throughout the U.S. military and encouraged the rise of heroin cultivation and trafficking in postwar Afghanistan.<snip>