Bob Woodward was going around talking about a Manhattan Project like breakthrough that was responsible for Iraq beginning to improve, but never said what it was

Bob Woodward was going around talking about a Manhattan Project like breakthrough that was responsible for Iraq beginning to improve, but never said what it was. From reading this article, it sounds like the NSA was identifying imminent insurgent attacks in real-time, and then feeding fake information to lead those attackers into traps so we could drop a bomb on them. It'll be interesting to read the full story when the inevitable books are written about it.