Originally Posted by thenewnoise

1. Correct. In other words, they wanted to make sure when the story was leaked, it would not be published.

2. It has been published all over that the US was taking aggressive steps toward monitoring and freezing terrorist assets. If you want to claim that they were not aware of it, that must mean they don't read the newspaper. If that is the case, they probably didn't read the NYT article. But of course, they do read and knew since 9/11 that the US was doing this type of thing, which is why many of them have started using other modes of exchanging money. Can you tell me specifically how this hurt the war effort in a unique way?