Good ol' C.I.A.

An already Vietnam-esque situation gets even...Vietnam...ier with the revelation that the Afghan President's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, is on the payroll of the C.I.A. President Karzai's brother is widely believed to be heavily involved Afghanistan's booming opium trade. I can imagine this would piss off the military who are trying to halt opium production because it funds the Taliban. Perhaps we're seeing some tension between the intelligence community and the military playing itself out on the pages of The New York Times.