Because of the sensitive nature of the corrosive news media infrastructure, you may have noticed mainstream outlets regularly publishing "news" based on the accounts of sources who remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of __________.
Journalists can be lazy but nature ain't sensitive. Please help us ridicule anonymous sources for the cop outs they represent.
An American-born al-Qaida recruit trained to become a suicide bomber before he was captured in Pakistan last year, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Bryant Neal Vinas learned how to use a suicide vest, according to the law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Pakistani authorities nabbed the 26-year-old New Yorker last year in the city of Peshawar near the border of Afghanistan. Law enforcement officials have refused to say exactly when, but a person familiar with the case said Vinas was picked up in November. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
Vinas was also interviewed this year in New York by prosecutors in Belgium pursuing an anti-terror case involving Malika El Aroud, said an official at the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. El Aroud is the widow of a man involved in killing anti-Taliban warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, abruptly canceled a campaign fundraising lunch scheduled for Wednesday after the Washington lobbyist helping to organize the event suggested in an invitation that the committee’s work would be served as the “first course.”
Chinese officials have reportedly continued to make threats against a lawyer who has defended local farmers in Guanxin Province in the south of China. The province is where the Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso is the biggest foreign investor.
A 33-year-old Dunsmuir man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a warrant charging him with rape, kidnapping, assault, attempted murder and other crimes, two weeks after a seriously injured woman was rescued from his camp along the Sacramento River.
“But how much it would help, I don’t know,” said the expert, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his work with schools. …