The New York Times just made quite an enemy. James Comey, the director of the FBI, wrote an angry letter to the Times, blasting it for quoting an anonymous source in Al Qaeda. The quote appeared in an article about the timing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
“Your decision to grant anonymity to a spokesperson for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula so he could clarify the role of his group in assassinating innocents, including a wounded police officer, and distinguish it from the assassination of other innocents in Paris in the name of another group of terrorists, is both mystifying and disgusting,” wrote Comey.
Yikes.
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