August 07, 2004
Bush Exposes Our Al Q'aida Mole?
Juan Cole summarizes the headlines of the last few days.Bush announces a terrorist plot on Sunday about financial institutions. People scream about it being politics in response. Bush later says that the plot is corroborated by a third party. Bush names third party. Third party turns out to be a double agent that we had placed inside of Al Q'aida, and Bush just blew his cover.
That's the theory, anyway. If it's true, it is huge. Huge.
>"and Bush just blew his cover."
Excuse me, but what 'cover'?
The cover of being perceived as a capable, magnaminious, visionary and strong world leader.
Outside of Fortress America, Bush has the cover of being a weasely, ignorant World-Leader pretend who happened to be there on dint of some nepotistic joke.
Posted by: NeuBauten at August 9, 2004 10:07 AMActually I think he was referring to the mole that got outed, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, who had been sharing his e-mail loop of al Qaida operatives with Pakistani intelligence. The Bush administration mentioned such a man was working inside the group, then his name got leaked to the press. This was supposed to be a state secret. And this keeps happening. Just when we can make this terrorist organization lose a much-needed limb, our own government gets in the way and makes us settle for a paper cut. What the hell?
Posted by: Joe Medina at August 10, 2004 08:50 AM