"We Don't Do Politics in the Department of Homeland Security." (it's just a perk)

Try this on for size, as distilled by Juan Cole. It's another example, already getting a lot of blogburst, of Bush Admistration politicking at the expense of real security efforts and lives lost.

This whopper includes prematurely unmasking the first British-Pakistani agent in Al-Qaeda, losing the chance to get some real players in Al-Qaeda, and having one of those lost opportunities go on to be one of the London bombers.

Can we get a "my bad" from GWB and Co.?