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Joe Conason: 'Latest Bush blunder: A mole made public':
"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?"via [ Today's Papers ]
That is the pertinent question, and the answer is all too obvious.