Out of My Mind

From the Wall Street Journal (sub. reqd.):

It wasn't how I imagined my departure from Iraq would be, after three years of living and working there as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. But the British security firm we hired had warned in an email that insurgents were plotting to kidnap a female American journalist and advised women not to leave their hotel unless absolutely necessary.

Several weeks later, my friend Jill Carroll, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in broad daylight at gunpoint as she left an interview in Baghdad. Her Iraqi translator was murdered. As I write this, despite pleas for her release the world over, Jill remains in captivity.

(Emphasis added.)

It begs one to wonder what our intel knows -- or doesn't. And how a private, non-American firm, apparently, has some high-quality intel.... Or maybe our intel really knows what's going on but isn't talking... maybe a continuation of the fine job done in the pre-war years e.g. don't give the administration anything like the truth but rather the lies it's demanding to be told.