ABC News reported last night that "We are just learning tonight that an urgent worldwide manhunt is underway" for the people named in files recovered from Osama bin Laden's thumb drives in Abbottabad.
Really?!? Well DUH!!!
As if our intelligence agencies opened the files, saw the names of hundreds of al-Qa'ida operatives, and then said, Hey, anyone else have a craving for Mexican? I know a little cantina a few hours away. What? No, no, those files can wait, those guys aren't going anywhere. Come on, margaritas are only a dollar until 7PM!
Although there has been some speculation as to whether the media should report details such as this, in reality there isn't anybody on that list who doesn't already know he's a wanted man or who, when the President announced that bin Laden had been killed and we had his computers, didn't realize he had to rethink his modus operandi.
That being said, I haven't seen an explanation as to why the White House decided to announce the operations' success immediately rather than waiting a week to give U.S. intelligence a head start on these guys. I'd be curious to see if there wasn't somebody who suggested they should sit on the news for a bit in order to exploit the intelligence the SEALs had discovered.
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