possible recursion when creating subtheme with drush

I am running the following on a clean D7.0 install:
Omega 7.x-3.x-dev
Context 7.x-3.0-beta1
Delta 7.x-3.0-alpha1
Omega Tools 7.x-3.x-dev

I entered the Drush command to create a new Omega subtheme as
$ drush omega-subtheme "Smith Basement"
and then received a response, but no prompt was returned right away:

HTML5 Omega Subtheme: Smith Basement (smith_basement) created and    [ok]
configured for usage.

After waiting several minutes the CLI barfed a lot of stuff, most of which didn't make sense at the time until I looked inside my new subtheme directory. What I found was an entire copy of my site files. In other words, inside /sites/all/themes/smith_basement/ was a copy of all of my core and contrib files. Addtionally, when I looked inside of /sites/all/themes/smith_basement/sites/all/themes/smith_basement/ there was yet another copy of my site files.

At no time were an .info file or any other files created in the smith_basement directory.

Among the errors in the CLI were several that said "cannot send long-named file" followed by an absurdly long and repeating string of directory names, ending a file name. There were also these error messages, which appear to be the result of the failure to create the proper files in the subtheme directory:

rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
sed: can't read /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/sites/all/themes/smith_basement/template.php: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/sites/all/themes/smith_basement/theme-settings.php: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/sites/all/themes/smith_basement/omega_starterkit.info': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/sites/all/themes/smith_basement/*.info: No such file or directory

There were several PHP errors reported, but I believe these were the result of the copies of the core and contrib files being deposited in the subtheme's directory:

* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/profiles): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/sites): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/modules): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/includes): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/misc): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/scripts): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).
* Warning: opendir(sites/all/themes/smith_basement/themes): failed to open dir: Permission denied in file_scan_directory() (line 1975 of /home/quickstart/websites/smith7.dev/includes/file.inc).