Keystone Spies

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Via Jeff Stein, who catches this marvel of U.S.-Iraqi ineptitude, from today’s David Ignatius column:

[T]he Iranians had recently captured several dissident Iranian operatives who had been recruited by U.S. military officers inside Iraq and then sent into Iran. The Iranians, whose intelligence network inside Iraq is pervasive, surveilled the meeting, then followed the agents across the border and seized them.

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