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Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists
CIA officers are no doubt horrified by the disclosures, although those who work in Langley refuse to say anything publicly about the subject. Obama White House officials, however, “are probably not terribly upset about it,” says Clifford May, president of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “It’s generally good publicity for them.” Indeed, administration officials have been adding details to the account: They have said, for example, that they’d been hearing “chatter” from the Yemen-based terrorist group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, that made it sound as though they were planning another attack.