Personally, I do like the idea of reporting intel on this operation. If the operation is exactly what they say it is (which I suspect is the case), then we are giving important feedback to the special forces folks who will soon be doing this for real, in the middle east or thereabouts. And if there really is something nefarious about it, we'll all know about it that much sooner.

That's a "win-win" as far as I'm concerned, with little or no downside.

Onward and upward,
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