Your post reminded me of a story I read yesterday:
Mom aids in hunting terrorists over Web
By Neil Doyle
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Referred to by her spy masters only as "Mrs. Galt," she is by day an unremarkable American housewife and mother.
But after her two children go to bed, she plunges into a secret world of Internet chat rooms and Web sites populated by some of the most dangerous people on earth.
Burrowing into the byzantine network of unpublicized Web sites used by al Qaeda and other terror groups for their routine communications, she sweet-talks her interlocutors into revealing their plans, often with fatal consequences for the terrorists.
Continued here:
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030808-104401-1189r.htm
Seems like going public would destroy her effectiveness.