The New York Times‘ recent coverage of the fallout from a targeted drone strike that took out two hostages — one American, along with the suspected terrorist — contained a detail missing from many other new outlets‘ coverage of the same incident: Michael D‘Andrea.

D‘Andrea is the „architect“ behind the CIA‘s targeted strike program. D‘Andrea‘s name had never been previously published by a major news source (although it had been outed elsewhere). The Washington Post — in its pre-Snowden leak days — featured a long profile of the chain-smoking Islam convert that included several personally-identifiable details about D‘Andrea… but not his name.