Last night Ernest at the Beach posted a very interesting thread on this.
The outing was done by a Pakki Intel guy. Then the two NY Slimes reporters did their light in the loafer dance with unnamed US sources (top $ they are in the same probably the same rat camp as Joe Wilson and Richard Clarke).
Go to this link for some insight to what happened not the Gay light in the Loafer spin of a pair playing reporter for the Old Gray Whore, the NY Slimes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186810/posts
Quote:
the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
Unquote.
Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001
A poster on another website just said the same thing.
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A senior White House official who mentioned the new stream of intelligence in an interview refused to say anything more about its source or content. The official said it had not been publicly disclosed out of concern that such a step could compromise intelligence and law enforcement operations in the United States and around the world. Officials would not describe those operations but said they were meant to disrupt a possible plot.
But senior federal intelligence and law enforcement officials also described the intelligence as important. They said it had reached the White House last Friday and strongly reinforced the sense of alarm prompted by the separate flow of information that was arriving at the same time via the Central Intelligence Agency from Pakistan, and that it was based on information culled from seized computer disks that contained detailed case reports of reconnaissance conducted on buildings in Manhattan, Newark and Washington in 2000 and 2001.
~snip~
The White House officials spoke in a lengthy interview arranged at the request of The New York Times in which they offered a detailed accounting of the decision-making that led to the terrorist alert.
The computer disks on which the case reports were found were linked to Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a 25-year-old Pakistani computer engineer who was arrested by Pakistani authorities on July 13, American officials have confirmed. They have described Mr. Khan's arrest, carried out at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency, as having provided the crucial breakthrough in the case, leading them not only to the case reports but also to information about other Qaeda officials still at large who appear to have had access to the documents.
*Note the language change in the NYT sourcing. The inference is that the confirmation came from White House officials, but they segue to American officials when making the attribution.