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If Obama’s Lost The Guardian, He’s Truly Lost the Left

MI6 HQ in Vauxhall, London - They are not Amused!Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

So eager is Obama to crow about, and take credit for, military and intelligence operations, that his administration has now exceeded even the perfidy of the New York Times. Not content to simply announce that they had apprehended a potential bomber with a new type of underwear bomb (gives a whole new meaning to the old phrase ‘blown to kingdom come’), our treasonous tyrant told the world, and our enemies, that the would be bomber was a double agent, infiltrated into Al Quaeda of the Arabian Peninsula by the British intelligence services.

The Guardian, an old line British newspaper, which is arguably only one notch away from communism,  would naturally be in Obama’s corner, but no more! H/T American Thinker

From The Guardian:

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 inSaudi Arabia, in the port city of Jeddah, and then studied and worked in the UK, where he acquired a British passport.

Mike Scheur, the former head of the CIA‘s Bin Laden unit, said the leaking about the nuts and bolts of British involvement was despicable and would make a repeat of the operation difficult. “MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic,” Scheur said.

He added: “Any information disclosed is too much information. This does seem to be a tawdry political thing.”

He noted that the leak came on the heels of a series of disclosures over the last 10 days, beginning with a report that the CIA wanted to expand its drone attacks in Yemen, Barack Obama making a surprise trip to Afghanistan around the time of the Bin Laden anniversary and “then this inexplicable leak”.

Robert Grenier, former head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, said: “As for British Intelligence, I suppose, but do not know, that they must be very unhappy. They are often exasperated, quite reasonably, with their American friends, who are far more leak-prone than they.


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