And their sources, who seem to think that it's a wonderful thing to publish sensitive information that could wreck our operations or any slim level of Pakistani cooperation we've been getting so far. Maybe this was a deliberate leak, but I'm having a hard time seeing the upside of this, unless they're trying to flush somebody in Pakistan.

I don't know if you've realized this, but this kind of operation is probably the only way we will ever take down al Qaeda leaders like bin Laden and Zawahiri holed up in Pakistan. You remember them? The ones you're always yelling about why we haven't taken them down?

...according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.