Intelligence
Dec 11th, 2006 at 12:39 pm by Dr. S
[Crossposted at Redsoxville.]
Your government at work.
When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft.
Frustrated, the State Department assigned a junior Foreign Service officer to find the names another way — by using Google. Those with the most hits under search terms such as “Iran and nuclear,” three officials said, became targets for international rebuke Friday when a sanctions resolution circulated at the United Nations.
Bush looks over Iraq options
President Bush met today with senior State Department officials to review diplomatic and political o
Wonder if that kind of info runs through the operation that the same folks blew up with the B-J leaks. That fact might have put a lot of Really Important Stuff on the Agency agenda.
You’re kidding–right?