Given that, in the case of Shahram Amiri, we are dealing with the world's premier liars and the world's dumbest bunch of thugs since comic books were born, shouldn't news agencies like the New York Times be a little bit more circumspect?
The world's premier liars and the world's dumbest bunch of thugs are one and the same, of course: the CIA. If I were in charge of guessing through this fiasco, I would have no problem choosing my route.
The first premise is that the CIA made a mess. The second is that they are lying, trying to get out of it. Shahram Amiri either wasn't a nuclear scientist, or he was a plant posted by the Iranian government. He was either kidnapped, or bribed to defect. He was allowed to return to Iran either because he had already set up the disclosure of his "exploitation," should he disappear, or because the CIA was hoping to hide its stupidity, or because they were even stupider than they usually are and just let him go home since he wasn't a nuclear scientist anyway.
The CIA has housed incompetent people since I first met them in 1957. They are Keystone Cops with huge budgets, huge egos, and the intelligence of earthworms.
Earthworms take things in: blind observation. It runs through them, and comes out the other end as intelligence. Ask Philip Agee if I'm right. Or Mark Sullivan. Or the widow--or the children--of Paul Corscadden.
Bert Hornback
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