As of 12:45 EST this morning, Drudge was still advertising a developing story posted hours earlier: “Sources: Bush anger at coming New York Times Story detailing hunt for Bin Laden…The newspaper is planning to expose a “highly classified Pentagon order” authorizing Special Operations forces to hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan. ‘Operation Cannonball’.
Operation Cannonball was the code name given to the Al Qaeda hunt in Pakistan by the C.I.A. in 2006.
The Drudge Report red flag was not lost on those close to the US military, including Move America Forward’s Melanie Morgan.