Buried

At the very bottom of this New York Times article on a recent court challenge to the NTPD's new subway random bag-search policy, there comes this:

The most dramatic moment of the day came at the end of Mr. Cohen's testimony, when two men in the audience loudly began to demand why he had not been cross-examined.

That's it. The text stops right there, leading the reader with some burning questions. Who were these men? What was their concern about former CIA DDO Cohen's testimony? Were they conspiracy-theory-mongering...mongerers? Or representatives of justly outraged citizenry? Were they wearing the kind of waggish t-shirts that get one thrown off a budget-travel airline? Maybe they're just fans of cross-examinations?

In any case, it was -- as reporter Sewell Chan indicates -- the dramatic high point of the day. So why toss it in at the bottom? Why tantalize us with the taste of the drama we were kept from experiencing? Why, Sewell, why?

Posted by BT at November 01, 2005 11:27 PM