Can he even comprehend how much this news can damage the United States in the war on terror? The Islamist terrorists talk about the United States stealing its land and raping its women. They’ll grasp onto this single case like a pitbull and drive it as evidence all the way home.

The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September.

The discovery of more than a dozen videotapes showing the CIA officer engaged in sex acts with other women has led the Justice Department to broaden its investigation to include at least one other Arab country, Egypt, where the CIA officer had been posted earlier in his career, according to law enforcement officials. …

Following the initial complaints, U.S. officials say they obtained a warrant from a federal judge in Washington, D.C. in October to search the station chief’s CIA-provided residence in Algiers and turned up the videos that appear to have been secretly recorded and show, they say, the CIA officer engaged in sexual acts.

Officials say one of the alleged victims is seen on tape, in a “semi-conscious state.”

Do take note of the highlighted part. Because it likely won’t end up in the Middle East media’s reporting or the stories Islamist terrorists tell potential supporters.

Ed Morrissey:

It’s impossible to overstate the damage this could do to the US, both diplomatically and in the war on terror.  Algeria is a critical station for intelligence against al-Qaeda, and one of the most active subgroups of AQ operates in that country.  Reports of biological weapons research by al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) and laboratory accidents underscores the need for robust CIA work in the country, which will almost certainly suffer serious damage and a curtailment of cooperation.

Ace of Spades HQ:

I wonder how much of a career boost he got for being a Muslim convert, on the theory that this would make him a more effective operative and reduce frictions with the locals by running a more “culturally sensitive” station.

That doesn’t seem to have worked out very well.

Indeed.