[VRWC_minion]

International law holds that the media is an independent agent and is not to be used as a covert intel source.Nonsense is the kindest description of this response. Receiving an unsolicited phone call FROM the terrorist is hardly covert intel. This is like saying that if someone called the NYT's from Afghanistan telling them to go to the WTC with a camera, the NYT could not pass on the call because it could be considered covert intel.

[spunkets]

"Receiving an unsolicited phone call FROM the terrorist is hardly covert intel."

How do they know who the call came from? How do they know they weren't going to be kidnapped?

"This is like saying that if someone called the NYT's from Afghanistan telling them to go to the WTC with a camera,"

So, what could they do to know what was going to happen, seek out a psychic?

"the NYT could not pass on the call because it could be considered covert intel."

They can do whatever they want. They have their considerations and will make their own decisions with what they have to go on. They are abliged to do nothing and the govm't is abliged to stay out of their decisions and allow them to make them w/o, requirement of notification, or sanction.