Reliable Sources

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

NOTE: The excerpt below was published at BOTW on Sept. 13th.

Reliable Sources
“A suspected U.S. drone strike killed five suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal region on Sunday morning,” a suspected journalist reports for CNN, citing suspected “intelligence officials”:

The intelligence officials asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Last week officials said suspected drone strikes killed 29 suspected militants in the region.

The story concludes: “U.S. officials normally do not comment on suspected drone strikes.” Just as we suspected! 

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