It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones. As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were our intelligence agencies, which managed not to connect every obvious clue to a (literally) seat-of-the-pants al-Qaeda operation. It hardly mattered that the underwear bomber’s case — except for the placement of the bomb material — almost exactly, even outrageously, replicated the infamous, and equally inept, “shoe bomber” plot of eight years ago.
Tags: Afghanistan, Chalmers Johnson, CIA and "night raids", drone assassination war., Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi and CIA, Jordanian Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid, om Engelhardt & Nick Turse, underwear bomber's case
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