Well gee, are they surprised? Afterall it is the liberals who don't want to step on anyone's rights you know. They have a right to buy bomb material and store it close to the White House doncha know!
The thrust of the article is that it is of deep concern that the media was able to pull off this plot and no one knew about it.
Of course, it might be possible that telephone conversations between the co-conspirators of ABC might have been monitored... except that the Media would howl about government monitoring of communications.
Of course, once the NSA found out about it, they could have passed the information to the FBI... except that the Media would howl over violation of the Gorelick "Firewall" between intelligence agencies.
Of course, once the FBI found out about it, they could have infiltrated ABC with one of their informants... except that the Media would have howled over the fact that someone with an IQ of over 72 was now loose in the bowels of the news industry. Who knows what havoc that might have caused.
The informant could then have reported his information on national T.V., ... except that Clinton and his cronies would then have demanded that ABC pull the story... because of the bad light it would shed on... ABC? This is beginning to resemble the eerie, bizarre, twisted sort of script that a bad episode of "Lost" might have.