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D'oh! We Still Don't Have Any Good Iraq Intel

Belatedly (because, er, I lost my blog password and BOTH my computers melted down and the dog ate my keyboard), let us praise CQ's Jeff Stein for pointing out that among the casualties of Baghdad's continuing meltdown is... the CIA.

According to several well informed intelligence sources, hundreds of CIA operatives have become virtual prisoners in the Green Zone, the sprawling American enclave whose high walls and guards separate the U.S. embassy, military command and related civilian agencies from the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad’s streets.

The CIA operatives cannot safely roam the city to meet their few agents, much less recruit new ones.

It’s just too dangerous. CIA chiefs don’t want to risk one getting kidnapped, tortured on camera and beheaded.

That would certainly dampen the allure of a career in the CIA.

So "they spend their days playing cards and watching DVDs," said a former senior CIA operations official who maintains close ties in the agency.

You can't make this stuff up.

Comments

I guess we should just give up on Iraq and bring the troops home. With the power vacuum that will occur, we can just let Iran move in and gain control of the oil so they can fund their peaceful nuclear ambitions. Maybe if the US is nice to Iran they won't nuke anyone. I don't know why the US military is still in Iraq after all the mistakes. We should just pull out and give al-qaeda a safe haven to operate and plan attacks. Peace, right?

Posted by: Goody on 01/30/07 at 9:11 AM

While it's true that they spend the DAY relaxing, they put on their costumes on and do their dirty work in the dark, like vampires they can't stand to work in daylight, we would then know what they were really doing. The Iraqi people will have to settle their political disputes, then they will have to arrange something with the curds, then we had better be gone or pay a hell of a price for invading their country!

Posted by: Ranselar VanDerpoel on 01/31/07 at 8:35 AM