"Everyone's buzzing about the 'sophisticated and lethal special operations program,' " said a posting on Wired.com last Tuesday. "What in the heck was Woodward talking about? Secret death rays? The Voice of God weapon?" More likely, the Web site speculated, it was a tagging, tracking and locating program that placing thermal signatures, or tags, on unsuspecting targets to monitor them.
Two reporters from The Washington Post -- Mr. Woodward's newspaper -- posited that it is an assassination team called "fusion cells," which involves special operations, unmanned drones, forensic scientists and the members of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
While remaining tight-lipped on its details in his book, he was a little more explicit during his publicity tour earlier this week. "If you were a member of al-Qaeda or some extremist militia, you would be wise to get your rear end out of town," he told CNN's Larry King this week.