British And U.S. Intelligence Are Rattled By White House Leaks On Their Operations

Underwear Bomb Plot: British And US Intelligence Rattled Over Leaks -- The Guardian

Leak about UK involvement described as despicable by CIA as anger turns to Obama administration for compromising mission.

Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5.

The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent was not a Saudi national as was widely reported, but a Yemeni. He was born in Saudi Arabia, in the port city of Jeddah, and then studied and worked in the UK, where he acquired a British passport.

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My Comment: The U.S. media has been completely AWOL on the White House's use of intelligence information/operations for political purposes. One has to go overseas to other media sources (like the above Guardian's post) to read on what is becoming a huge scandal within the intelligence community. I am shaking my head .... one day Al Qaeda (or some other group) will launch a successful operation against us that will claim numerous lives .... and they will have been able to do so due to the information that they have gleamed from these leaks and other open and public sources.