One thing that troubled me from the first when I heard about the attack on our CIA base in Afghanistan was how did the attacker know it was a focal point for our intel efforts?It turns out that the attacker knew because he was a CIA informant who came and went with relative ease at the base. Aleem Agha and Nick Schifrin of ABC News has the story:The suicide bomber who killed at least six Central Intelligence Agency officers in a base along the Afghan-Pakistan border on Wednesday was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times in the past, according to someone close to the base's security director.The informant was a Pakistani and a member of the Wazir tribe from the Pakistani tribal area North Waziristan, according to the same source. The base security director, an Afghan named Arghawan, would pick up the informant at the Ghulam Khan border crossing and drive him about two hours into Forward Operating Base Chapman, from where the CIA operates.Because he was...(Read Full Post)