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So it's helpful to be able to say something other than oh vaguely we have national security concerns so we're shutting down the embassies. we're worried about some threat we're not going to talk about. that's still the official line, right? it is helpful to be able to say that actually what this is an intercept of al qaeda's top leadership talking to each other directly about an imminent attack at a specific time. that said, you do not necessarily want the newspapers to print that the exact intercept you got was between guy named "a" and guy named "b" because then you are telling those specifi...

It's anonymous sources titrating information to reporters and nothing is ever official. and you can see the way they're sort of trying to balance their strategy here. the embassies all being closed for a long time, that's a big deal. you want people to know that this big deal thing you have done is justified. so it's helpful to be able to say something other than, oh, vaguely we have national security concerns so we're shutting down the embassies. we're worried about some threat that we're not going to talk about. that's still the official line, right? it is helpful to be able to say that actu...

Say something other than oh vaguely we have national security concerns so we're shutting down the embassies. we're worried about some threat we're not going to talk about. that's still the official line, right? it is helpful to be able to say that actually what this is an intercept of al qaeda's top leadership talking to each other directly about an imminent attack at a specific time. that said, you do not necessarily want the newspapers to print that the exact intercept you got was between guy named "a" and guy named "b" because then you are telling those specific guys in the pages of the "mi...