This is related to 9-11 but not the story above... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.html The whistleblower from the AT&T NSA spying case has released something he wrote about it in 2004... it reads like some sci-fi political techno-thriller. I wonder if Pynchon is freaked out by this stuff and what he has to say about it.