It's heartening to see our allies doing our job while we still try to figure out the Iraq mess Bush created. But how much longer are they going to put up with this administration's grandstanding before they just give suspects a pass - knowing their hard work will be sabotaged by these egocentric jackasses?
Plain and simple - BushCo's bravado is putting us in danger.
British say US gave terror suspects a heads up
On the surface, the development suggests successful coordination of international counterterror efforts: A pair of suspected Al Qaeda lynchpins are nabbed in Pakistan; a few megabytes of intelligence retrieved from a computer point to a conspiracy and several plotters; the US raises its terror alert and warns the public; the British police and counterterror units swoop.
But intelligence experts say that privately there is great concern that the operation was jeopardized by US public pronouncements that were made before the British suspects were even apprehended.
"For reasons not so far satisfactorily explained, the US authorities decided to broadcast specific intelligence material upon which they must have known a vitally important future UK arrest operation would be based," says Charles Shoebridge, a former British counterterrorism intelligence officer now based in London.
