Topic: Central Intelligence Agency

Tracing the CIA Underwear Bomb Leak Back to the White House

John Brennan
AP

The Associated Press gets credit for actually breaking the recent "underwear bomber" news, but the information that the plot was an inside job by an intelligence operative actually appears to have come accidentally from a White House attempt at damage control.

By Adam Martin

Jun 15, 2011

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The intelligence agency would be the group's most significant government target yet

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