There comes a time when the press needs to draw the same line of respect as ordinary citizens and stay the hell out of the way during an investigation – especially one of national security significance.
NPR reports,via the Corner at NRO, that the realtime cat-and-mouse game between Shahzad, the Press and law enforcement “was like watching an episode of 24 in real time.”
Says NPR: “The only problem was that Shahzad was able to watch it, too.”:
[T]here were leaks in this case from the beginning — partly because of the dynamic between two powerful law enforcement forces in New York City….
Details about the Times Square investigation were all over the local newspapers, even as authorities were still trying to puzzle out who was responsible. Any element of surprise that law enforcement might have had was evaporating. To be fair, law enforcement was partly to blame. In many cases, it was the source of the information and leaks. But there seemed to be an extra level of frustration about the leaks in this case. As one law enforcement official told NPR,
“Our operational plans were being driven by the media, instead of the other way around. And that’s not good.”
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