[FreeReign]

Except, if they were clever, they encrypted the original file (or broke it into pieces, possibly embedded in other files -- steganography) and sent it somewhere overseas, where it was actually decrypted and sent to those scumbag Arab "news" outlets...

Sending it to an intermediary probably wouldn't help. It just creates an extra hop to trace.

If one hop can be traced, then so can two.

[Bush2000]

Sending it to an intermediary probably wouldn't help. It just creates an extra hop to trace. If one hop can be traced, then so can two.

Sure, but here's the problem: You don't know who to trace because you don't know who the parties are.