This is a thread for speculating wildly why Egypt and Pakistan have lost much of their connectivity.

Is the NYT’s report that Cheney and Condi were considering teaming CIA operatives with Special Forces to conduct operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas just a belated effort to get Osama bin Laden?

Bob Novak and the AP present dueling sides of a debate over whether the US did enough to support Benazir Bhutto’s safety.

McClatchy reports that, on the day she was killed, Benazir Bhutto was about to hand over proof of the ISI’s plans to steal the Pakistani election to Arlen Specter. It raises new reasons for concern that Cheney is in charge of our Pakistan “policy.”

I don’t have much wisdom about the Bhutto assassination. Pretty much everyone agrees her death devastates our Pakistan policy. But since so little is clear about who killed Bhutto–and particularly the Pakistani government’s role in her death–I think it remains impossible to forsee what will come next.

A timeline of the drafting of the NIE and related items.