we're all free to hypothesize. I'd start with what would be the probability that a young hapless freelance journalist knowing Urdu language (and indicating on occasion his understanding of Pashto) who somehow decided to go to freelance in Pakistan (to cover, ie. to gather and analyze info on Muslim extremism there) and who has father from intelligence community wouldn't be asked to run some small errand for CIA/whatever? Or may be a little bigger errand with much more deeper involvement ... wouldn't it increase the probability of his exposure to the info? What the probability what this article in NY is just a cashing out on the info and not a part of of the continuous operation/post operation cleaning/freelance journalist cover maintenance/etc...?