Idiocy or Intelligence?
National Review has an article that takes to task a NY Times piece seemingly bent on giving away intelligence methods used in the takedown of that asshole Zarqawi. The criticism sticks, as the Times seems to always be on the side of whoever happens to be on the other side of the United States. This is a sad thing, but it could also be useful.
Quoting Andy McCarthy in NR: "Thanks yet again to people inside our intelligence community who don't know how to keep their mouths shut." Again, certain elements in the intelligence community, including the idiot married to Valerie Plame (please don't nitpick, we used him as a source), seem determined to score points against this administration at whatever cost. Again, could be useful.
Let's hope against hope that we have somebody with half a brain thinking on these things (I know they're there) and they fed the Times this stuff on purpose. I would in my perfect fantasy believe there was no GMC truck that left the bombsite just before the air strike. That there was no particular Jordanian—"The source inside Mr. Zarqawi's group, the Jordanian official said, had been cultivated at least in part by Jordanian intelligence agents."—providing us intelligence. (Zarqawi, being Jordanian should have at least a few of them hanging around.)
If I'm right, this is a perfect setup to rip apart the established cell surrounding Zarqawi and be really fun as an intelligence officer to watch as they eat their own. As the Times has been damned near useless to us in the war, which has again in the past few days been pointed out to be a propaganda war for a great part, it would be sweet to know that the Times was 'our' useful idiot(s) for a change.
