So, the alleged "underwear bomber" from yesterday was in cahoots with the CIA all along, the L.A. Times reports. 

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Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, working closely with the CIA, used an informant to pose as a would-be suicide bomber. His job was to convince the Al Qaeda franchise in Yemen to give him a new kind of non-metallic bomb that the militants were designing to easily pass through airport security.

But the double agent instead arranged to deliver the explosive device to U.S. and other intelligence authorities waiting in another country, officials said Tuesday. The agent is now safely outside Yemen and is being debriefed. 

To be clear, though: The guy helped intercept an underwear bomb, which is a fairly positive development.

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    I wish the government would be honest with us for once, I’m tired of this thong and dance
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    the underwear bomber was debriefed
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