Drop a MOAB on the NY Times.... now that is a reasonable thought after some of their trash.
After re reading this and holding back on the Moab for the NY Slimes, it appears the leak came from a Packy Intel guy.
Then at the meeting these two rat reporters did some typical NY Slimes dance steps:
"The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old computer engineer, arrested July 13, who had used and helped to operate a secret Qaeda communications system in which information was transferred via coded messages."
The leak came from the Pakky intel official, not any US officials.
Now for the footwork of the Slimes reporters:
"A senior U.S. official would not confirm or deny that Khan had been the Qaeda figure whose capture led to the information. But the official said "documentary evidence" found after the capture had demonstrated in extraordinary detail that Qaeda members had for years conducted sophisticated and extensive reconnaissance of the financial institutions cited in the warnings on Sunday."
We have no ideal who this official was. I would bet my pension he was not appointed by GW but is some lifelong rat in State, CIA or the FBI.
The footwork continues
"One senior U.S. intelligence official said the information was more detailed and precise than any he had seen during his 24-year career in intelligence work. A second senior U.S. official said it had provided a new window into the methods, content and distribution of Qaeda communications."
Again, a safe bet these besides being career intel in the first case and who knows in the second case another career person who is probably an embedded rat.
"["This, for us, is a potential treasure-trove," said a third senior U.S. official, an intelligence expert, at a briefing for reporters on Sunday afternoon."
The above gets a little confusing, is this blabber one of the three above or another one.
The keys here are they never say administraion officials, but key or senior US officials like they did during the Wilson/Plame fiasco and later the Clarke mess.
That's it, I off to bed.
Just Moab the NY Slimes, LA Slimes, Wash Compost and ABCNNBC BS and make America safer.