‘Stop tipping off the enemy’
12th May 2011
OK, the incredible details of the operation to silence Osama bin Laden are, indeed, irresistible — but our government’s been saying way too much about them, tipping off al Qaeda and clueing in other bad guys.
You can’t blame the press; its job is to get the story. But you can finger the White House and other government officials for not keeping enough of a zipped lip on some elements of the historic operation.