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People ask me how I manage to break news that the nation’s top reporters aren’t able to cover, especially considering that I spend about six hours each day playing Hotel Dash on the iPad and another two browsing the web for pictures of Christina Hendricks.

The answer is that I have many informants in such deep cover that they don’t actually exist. If you really want to get the dirt on a company, having imaginary sources on the inside is the best way to get information so secret that it only exists in my head.

I have one such nonexistent informant at Google, and he or she or...

The epicenter of global terrorism, and the CIA's highly classified drone war against extremist groups, is a black hole on the map -- a region of Pakistan off limits to outsiders, and especially Westerners. It’s an area so dangerous that even the Pakistani military avoids it. The CIA may have launched 70 drone strikes in tribal Pakistan in 2011 alone. But Americans, like the rest of the world, have no idea what the area looks like, or who lives there.

One resident of North Waziristan wants to expose the conflict. Noor Behram has spent years photographing the aftermath of drone strikes, often...