Our "Director of National Intelligence", Negroponte, is a diplomat, a negotiator, a compromiser.....by art and trade! This article, IMO, reflects a word-game.....by one who has his OWN inclinations, those of the Bush Administration, and is somewhat and somehow subordinate to the smoke-and mirrors Negroponte.
a few more snips from the article:
if you believe the head of the FBI, who insists his agency has found no evidence of additional al-Qaida terrorists in America since 9/11.
"I don't think al-Qaida is largely represented in the United States, or people that espouse violent extremism," FBI Director Robert Mueller recently told CNN.
Mueller, known by his agents for his political correctness, may not want to call attention to the Islamic threat. It also is possible the FBI is downplaying the domestic threat so as not to panic the public or incite vigilantism.
"And for all the worry about Osama bin Laden's sleeper cells or agents in the United States, a secret FBI assessment concludes it knows of none.
The 32-page assessment says flatly, "To date, we have not identified any true 'sleeper' agents in the US," seemingly contradicting the "sleeper cell" description prosecutors assigned to seven men in Lackawanna, N.Y., in 2002."