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"Trivializing the enemy is another dangerous journalistic tactic.
Many of the Islamic terrorists are basically amateurs. The bunch rounded up in Miami recently are starting to be portrayed as victims, rather than threats. However, if one or two FBI supervisors had zigged instead of zagged back in early 2001, and the 19 or 20 911 terrorists would have been rounded up.
It would have been very easy for enterprising journalists to portray this as an overreaction by the FBI. After all, who could take seriously this plan to simultaneously hijack four aircraft and crash them into buildings? It was all too absurd, and another example of the excessive police power of the government.
Treason aside, these tactics of destruction by revelation, and trivializing the threat, do provide substantial benefits to the enemy.
While the most professional and experienced terrorists were always aware of things like traffic analysis and CIA access to international wire transfer data, most al Qaeda activists do not. But now they do, and the implications have been spelled out for them, in great deal, by helpful journalists.
This influences future reporting, which will tend to avoid connecting the dots between these revelations and the success of some future terror attack. A sort of unconscious professional courtesy. There is one new element; net based journalists. That includes widely read bloggers and reports like this. But that only keeps the crimes visible, it doesn't do much to punish the guilty, or stop the assistance these traitors are giving to those who would kill them, and us.
These traitors will continue to get away with it.
Unless their activities are shown to assist terrorists in a particularly direct and obvious way, scary stories about potential perils will continue to protect those attacking the counter-terrorism effort.
"By blurring the line between legitimate dissent and active assistance to the enemy, political opportunism has sunk to new lows."
Ping!
That is, of course, unless they're criticizing him.
What a typical lib crackpot statement.
No sir, the most patriotic thing a person can do is put on the uniform of the United States Military.
Just my opinion.