[Girlene]

Did you notice how obsessed Gregory was with the al-Qaida connection? As if you have to have a membership card with that one organization to be a threat and otherwise you just don’t matter.

Yes, I noticed. I took his line of questioning as something different. The administration is trying to downplay this latest terrorist incident as "isolated", "lone-wolf", extremist. I think he was trying to push them to admit he's part of AQ, whether he has a membership card or not. We have gone back to the pre 9/11 mentality of treating this as a law enforcement issue. The "terrorist" has lawyered up at this point. He's a terrorist, period.

[gov_bean_ counter]

You are right. Back to reactive mode chasing a law enforcement issue.

[Bahbah]

Good analysis. I think you are right.

We have 13 murdered at Ft. Hood by the “lone wolf” and another “lone wolf” just about took out almost 300.

Those “lone wolves” are starting to add up significantly on the body count.

[GOPJ]

Janet Napolitano's primary concern is to protect Muslims from prejudice. If Americans die traveling traveling for business or vacation - it's just NOT a problem. ...

Switch this for a minute - pretend it's the Branch Dividians - and David Koresh is still with us. Would Janet and "Meet the Press" see it differently?

Say that Koresh's followers are getting on airplanes and trying to blow up the planes... Do you think for a minute that every American would be forced into the kind of Airport Security we have? Do you think Janet Napolitano's highest concern would be that "Davidians" not suffer a backlash? If it was a right wing evangelical group - Janet and dems wouldn't let them fly. And they sure as hell wouldn't be pretending the 50th Dividian was a "lone wolf". They'd be on this like white on rice.