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The current New York Review of Books (besides The New Yorker, the only other essential analytical Manhattan-based current affairs publication, Dan Okrent you tool) has a fascination article on code names that includes this paragraph:

In 1998, the Washington Times revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) could eavesdrop on Osama bin Laden's satellite telephone. No sooner had the story appeared than bin Laden stopped using the telephone, effectively disappearing from the radar screens of US intelligence. This kind of leak has disastrous effects; Michael Scheuer, a twenty-two-year veteran of the CIA who ran the bin Laden desk at that time, recently told a gathering of intelligence officials in Washington that he believes you can draw a direct causal line from the publication of that story to the attacks of September 11.

Am I forgetting the frothing and stamping from the wingers on this one? Must be... Oh, wait. It's the Moonie paper! They're theocrats, so they get a free pass.

And putting on my tinfoil hat: That sentence, "You can draw a direct causal line from the publication of that story to the attacks of September 11" ... Almost like they wanted a 21st Century Pearl Harbor to happen, isn't it...