The Al Qaeda Switchboard

By artappraiser on Mon, 01/06/2014 - 5:46pm |

By Lawrence Wright, "Comment" @ The New Yorker, Jan. 13, 2014 issue and online now

In ruling last month on the N.S.A.’s phone-surveillance program, a federal judge drew the wrong lesson from the story of a 9/11 hijacker.

[For those who don't know of Wright, as his bio says, among other accomplishments: ....His most recent book, “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” (2006), a narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2007 and was nominated for the National Book Award....as well as His work has included “The Man Behind Bin Laden,” about Ayman al-Zawahiri; an article on John O’Neill, the head of the F.B.I.’s counterterrorism effort in New York, who was killed on September 11th...]

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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/01/13/140113taco_talk_wright