Not necessarily. The media were asked no to disclose thsi info, and they did it anyway. Remember when the media "let it slip" that we were going to be able to track Osama due to the type of cave formations that were in the background of his videotapes, then the next tape came out and the background was covered up witha blanket or something to that effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1608272.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/18/ret.shroder.cnna/
http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/2001-11/2001-11-26-CBS-2.html
http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/2001-10/2001-10-23-NBC-8.html
http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/feb02/Feature_Shroderside.html
'Jack Shroder was drinking his morning tea on September 11 when he saw the World Trade Center in flames. After seeing the second plane crash, he knew it was not an accident.
He called up to his wife, Susie, who came running down the stairs. A half-hour later, he turned to his wife and said, “This just changed our lives big time,” Shroder recalls. “They’re going to find me. This is from Afghanistan. It’s Osama bin Laden and
Washington is going to remember my expertise.” They did. And Jack Shroder’s life took a big turn. '
I wouldn't call it a slip...was more like an idjit with an inflated ego and a big mouth hankering after his 15 Minutes.
Ever hear that parable of the fox (or frog?) carrying a scorpion across the river on it's back?
It's the media's nature to disclose these things. Good, bad or otherwise it's the way they are.
It's a foolish peace officer that forgets this or treats them as anything other than an amoral tool.
Fortunately I missed that report or I may have done something THEY would have regretted. IYKWIM?