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Originally posted by sgtclub
I'm not saying anything. The blog is suggesting that it may have been the NYT that leaked the name, relying on Paki intelligence, and not the confirmation from the admin. It's a timing issue, apparently.

edited to delete "not"

That's a wonderful theory, but only if you ignore the fact that Condi Rice told Wolf Blitzer last weekend on national TV that the administration supplied the name to the media on background:

• BLITZER: Let's talk about some of the people who have been picked up, mostly in Pakistan, over the last few weeks. In mid-July, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan. There is some suggestion that by releasing his identity here in the United States, you compromised a Pakistani intelligence sting operation, because he was effectively being used by the Pakistanis to try to find other al Qaeda operatives. Is that true?
  
  RICE: Well, I don't know what might have been going on in Pakistan. I will say this, that we did not, of course, publicly disclose his name. One of them...
  
  BLITZER: He was disclosed in Washington on background.
  
  RICE: On background. And the problem is that when you're trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you're dealing with a specific, credible, different kind of threat than you've dealt with in the past, you're always weighing that against kind of operational considerations. We've tried to strike a balance. We think for the most part, we've struck a balance, but it's indeed a very difficult balance to strike.