Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
More evidence that adults are not in charge of the Obama White House.
Greg Miller reports for the Washington Post, May 25, 2014, that the White House “inadvertently” exposed the identity of the CIA’s top officer in Kabul when his name was included on a list, provided to news organizations, of senior U.S. officials participating in Obama’s surprise visit to Afghanistan.
The individual was identified on the initial release as the “Chief of Station” in Kabul, a designation used by the CIA for its highest-ranking spy in a country.
The disclosure marked a rare instance in which a CIA officer working overseas had his cover — the secrecy meant to protect his actual identity — pierced by his own government. The only other recent case came under significantly different circumstances, when former CIA operative Valerie Plame was exposed as officials of the George W. Bush administration sought to discredit…
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