And there better not be no torturin’ going on, neither
Another outrageous violation of the liberals’ beloved Terrorists’ Bill of Rights:
NEW YORK – Authorities have disrupted foreign terrorists plotting to attack the transportation tunnels running beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, the FBI announced Friday.
“For most of the year, we have been focusing on a group of al-Qaida followers who have targeted the Hudson River tubes,” FBI Assistant Director Mark J. Mershon said Friday. “We believe we intercepted this group early in their plotting and, in fact, the plan has largely been disrupted.”
Mershon confirmed that one suspect, Assem Hammoud, was in custody in Lebanon and facing criminal charges.
Lebanese authorities, working with U.S. law enforcement agencies, last month arrested Hammoud, a Beirut native and al-Qaida operative who admitted to plotting a terror attack in New York City, a senior Lebanese security official said Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Well, I certainly don’t know how the FBI managed to thwart the NYT’s vigilance (Bill Keller, call your office, please), but they’d damned well better release these oppressed victims of Bush’s domestic spying programs forthwith, or face the wrath of the Freedom-Loving Left.
Update! Via Allah, the fruits of espionage journalism:
It is not clear whether this case was one of several our sources claim they discussed in general terms with the New York Times, and which Treasury and Justice told the Times would be endangered if it went public with the SWIFT program. It appears the arrest of the plotter in Lebanon took place before the SWIFT story was leaked.
But another DOJ source added something interesting to the mix: “If you go back and look at some of our more successful anti-terrorism cases, they have focused on taking down entire networks. How do we do that? From the inside, peeling off a lead actor, turning him and using him to keep the plot moving forward so we can trace everyone else, the money, the accounts, the weapons dealers, everyone. I’ll just note that we weren’t able to do that with this case and leave it at that. We could have, but we weren’t able to. You’ll have to do the math for the Times.”
Bold mine. Y’know, it’d surely serve the traitorous bastards right if…no, I can’t say it. I don’t even want to think it. Which, I guess, just points up one difference between…no, I won’t say that either.
All I’ll say is the NYT better figure out damned quick if they really, really want to be on the side they’ve chosen. Because that choice carries with it some serious consequences, either way.
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