Much of what is stamped secret is not info about our stuff, but what we know about the bad guys, including how we got it and who we got it from. It doesn’t matter if Habib gave us incorrect information about the Taliban, the fact that he was collaborating with us at all marks him as a dead man.

You have to be very brave or very naive to think that the USA will keep your identity as a source a secret. There’s always some Leftie ‘speaking truth to power’ (or some such twaddle) who will leak everything he knows that harms the US, and they rarely get punished. Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen are still breathing. I would have shot them myself. Nothing like a few good examples.