The NYT has a wonderful Rick's Place story in today's paper. ('I'm shocked--shocked!--to find that gambling's going on in here.') It involves a covert operation that supposedly used an innocent hearts-and-minds program to turn up information that was used to track and kill bad guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's all very complex, as such ops tend to be (remember Iran-Contra?), and there are two very funny kinks to it. One is Afpax Insider, a website run by the program. By all means take a look and see your tax dollars at work.
The other kink is the Rick's Place moment: toward the end of the NYT story, we learn that (wait for it!) the Gray Lady herself hired this outfit to rescue one of her own reporters. As it happened, he escaped by himself, but the symmetry is wonderful. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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