No More Secrets
by digby
Sure you can trump up some espionage charges on Julian Assange or torture Bradley Manning into saying what you want him to say, but it won’t change the fact that no matter what you do, secrets are leaking all over the place — by everyone:
The Central Intelligence Agency’s top clandestine officer in Islamabad was pulled from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer’s cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan’s military intelligence agency.
Kareem Khan, a resident of North Waziristan who claimed that his son and brother were killed in a drone strike, with his lawyer on Nov. 29.
The C.I.A. officer hastily left Pakistan on the same day that an Obama administration review of the Afghanistan war concluded that the war could not be won without greater cooperation from Islamabad in rooting out militants in Pakistan’s western mountains.
It’s sexy and fun to concentrate on Assange. But this is much bigger than him and putting him away won’t change that.
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