Astonishingly forthright statement of the week

CIA Director Leon Panetta to Time:

[It] was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission. They might alert the targets.

Panetta later remarked, “What? We were all thinking it.”

And you thought Stuxnet was bad

Roger C. Davidson walked into a computer services shop on Main Street in Mount Kisco, N.Y., seeking help with his virus-plagued computer.

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The owner of the shop, Vickram Bedi, 36, confirmed that there was a virus on Mr. Davidson’s computer, a virus Mr. Bedi said was so troublesome that it had also damaged the shop’s computers, officials said.

This led, of course, to $6 million dollars in fees being paid to the computer shop, and a tale of intrigue involving the CIA and Opus Dei.

Best operation since ACOUSTIC KITTY

If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.

Modern art was CIA 'weapon'.

(See also: ACOUSTIC KITTY)