ANOTHER AL-QUEDA LEAK

This Administration has made it clear that it will sacrifice national security for political gain. They have outed a mole in Al-Queda and that caused Britain and Pakistan to prematurely end an intelligence gathering operation. The Libby revelations show that classified intelligence will be used against political opponents. Now we learn that they have blown an Israeli intelligence operation in Iraq: (Via RawStory)

US leak of Zarqawi letter riles Israelis
The Sunday Times
April 09, 2006

ISRAELI military intelligence officials have accused President George W Bush’s administration of undermining their attempts to infiltrate Al-Qaeda’s operations in Iraq by revealing the contents of a secret letter written by Osama Bin Laden’s second-in-command, writes Uzi Mahnaimi.

Israel passed the letter — in which Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined his Middle East strategy to Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq — to Washington last October on condition of strict anonymity.


Israeli officials were dismayed, however, when John Negroponte, the US director of national intelligence, made it available in both English and its original Arabic on his office web site.

Bush then referred to it during his weekly address. “The Al-Qaeda letter points to Vietnam as a model,” the president declared. “Al-Qaeda believes that America can be made to run again. They are gravely mistaken. America will not run and we will not forget our responsibilities.”

Israeli intelligence sources said officials who had worked on “Operation Tiramisu” inside Iraq took emergency steps to protect their sources, but it was not clear how successful they had been in averting the damage to their intelligence network. They said Bush’s indiscretion had undone months of painstaking effort.