Another justification for spying questioned

Bin Laden Phone Leak an 'Urban Legend'?
By E&P Staff Published: December 22, 2005
In a Thursday article in The Washington Post, veteran reporter Glenn Kessler writes that the much-lamented press leak about Osama bin Laden's use of a satellite phone "appears to be an urban myth."Most recently, President Bush asserted once again this week that the news media, notably the Washington Times, published the leak in 1998, alerting al Qaeda to U.S. monitoring and causing bin Laden to abandon the device.But Kessler reports that bin Laden's use of sat phone "had already been reported in 1996 -- and the source of the information was another government, the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan at the time.