Blame the CIA: Maybe not all the time

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The CIA, rightly so and well-earned, has gotten plenty of blame for a lot of screw-up's all around the world over a long period of time. But, to be fair, they also have done some pretty good work. The latest of course is about CIA spies being captured, killed, or coming up missing, and worse, being blamed for a string of assassinations around the globe.

This latest story is posted at rawstory.com [read here] - highlights:

WASHINGTON — Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. Using American dollars and US passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the Central Intelligence Agency in the operations, notably in London, according to memos from 2007 and 2008, said the report.

So, what else is our staunchest ally in the ME up to (for their benefit and not ours?).

The White House's position through an official (unnamed): “There’s no question that the US has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the Iranians, but this was different. No matter what anyone thinks, we’re not in the business of assassinating Iranian officials or killing Iranian civilians,” said the official (in view of the latest assassination in Iran of another nuclear scientist).

Oh, the woes of the intelligence community in these trying times.