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ON the evening of December 3 last year, the Bush administration learned of an alarming leak. At midnight, the largest Muslim charity in the United States, the Holy Land Foundation of Richardson, Texas, would be formally listed as a terrorist-linked organization. Federal agents would then raid the foundation’s offices and seize its papers. Now, only a dozen hours before the raid, the phone was ringing. The New York Times was on the other end of the line. Somebody had tipped them off. They intended to post the news about the foundation on their website immediately.

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Secrets Out

ON the evening of December 3 last year, the Bush administration learned of an alarming leak. At midnight, the largest Muslim charity in the United States, the Holy Land Foundation of Richardson, Texas, would be formally listed as a terrorist-linked organization. Federal agents would then raid the foundation’s offices and seize its papers. Now, only a dozen hours before the raid, the phone was ringing. The New York Times was on the other end of the line. Somebody had tipped them off. They intended to post the news about the foundation on their website immediately.