Under the scheme, Clarridge would insert an agent into Karzai palace to collect his beard trimmings and then would run drug tests on them. He dropped the plan when it became obvious that the Obama administration had no intention of pushing Karzai from power. Working the phones late at night from his home in the San Diego suburbs, Clarridge maintained a network of spies who were gathering information on Taliban groups such as the Haqqani network. Through a Pentagon contract overseen by Lockheed Martin, Clarridge and his team were paid $22 million for their work and filed of intelligence reports to military commanders in Afghanistan. The CIA had always been unhappy about Clarridge freelance spying operation, and his contract was not renewed in 2010. He was angry that his former employer to be the reason that the operation had been shut down. Mazzetti, a national security correspondent for the New York Times, asserts that the on terror has damaged the CIA ability to understand the really important political developments in the Muslim world, such as the Arab Spring.
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