Not on the front page: NYT’s David Sanger ‘presumes’ we’re
conducting covert hostilities against North Korea  I’m confused
by David Sanger, the New York Times correspondent and author of
the important new book on Obama’s covert war policy. Sanger is a
complete insider and sometimes sounds like more of a columnist
than an investigative reporter. He hung out with Senator Dianne
Feinstein at the Aspen Institute. He characterizes Iran as a
“direct threat” to U.S. national security in an assumptive
manner, as if we should accept this at face value. He was a
speaker at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies just two years ago.   I heard Sanger on Leonard
Lopate’s show on WNYC last week and was struck by two critical
vaguenesses in his claims.  1. On Stuxnet, the American-Israeli
worm that attacked the Iranian nuclear program, Sanger is very
vague about how much damage it caused. He talks excitedly about
“rubble” created by the virus that was brought to the White
House. “The program was operat