The NYT would not know a truth if it walked up and kicked them in the fork.
There was chatter and movement at the listening posts, which the head of local intelligence pooh-poohed, and warnings from Egypt, which got ignored. What can one say? It was an unmitigated cluster-f@#$, but we bounced back mos koshee.
The NYT is the paper of shreklechkeit*, but a stopped clock is right twice a day.
* things that make one moan in agony, because they’re so bad.