Are security leaks aimed at lifting Obama's campaign?

When a double-agent infiltrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula by posing as a volunteer willing to train for suicide bomber duty, the CIA had achieved an enormous coup. The British-born agent earlier this year helped thwart the planned bombing of a U.S. bound plane with an advanced version of the “underwear bomb,” and delivered the device to U.S. officials.

That success was soon bannered in international news reports that quoted “government officials” and gave explicit details about the operation and the bomb. Those reports have forced the double-agent and his family into hiding and limited his usefulness to intelligence services.