Real Reason CIA Making More Bin Laden Papers Public

In January, the intelligence community announced the end of a 30-month project to de-classify the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan. While the documents, grabbed by the U.S. commandos who killed the long-hunted leader of al-Qaeda in 2011, contained more chaff than wheat—duplicate records, widely available literature, and more than enough pornography to make a supposedly pious sheikh blush—they also yielded invaluable intelligence on the group's structure, capabilities, and intentions.