[Nick Danger]

One of those names is Khaled Saffuri

This is becoming a thoroughly pointless discussion. You seem to think that by repeating how scary this guy is, you are advancing some argument. I don't think you are. Let us stipulate that certain people are creeps. Gaffney's argument is that having them around is dangerous, and mine is that once we know they are dangerous, they aren't dangerous anymore. They become zoo animals that we get to watch. We get to watch what they do. We get to watch what they advocate. We get to monitor their cell phones.

Now comes Frank Gaffney, pointing frantically, saying, "Look, everybody! A scary guy!" And so the villagers grab their tigers and their torches and their pitchforks and chase the scary guy away, and beat up Grover Norquist for good measure.

And the people whose job it is to catch the scary guys we don't know about yet go, "Aww, sh*t. Thanks a lot, Frank."

[Sabertooth]

Now comes Frank Gaffney, pointing frantically, saying, "Look, everybody! A scary guy!" And so the villagers grab their tigers and their torches and their pitchforks and chase the scary guy away, and beat up Grover Norquist for good measure.

And the people whose job it is to catch the scary guys we don't know about yet go, "Aww, sh*t. Thanks a lot, Frank."

Are you kidding?

You think getting Saffuri ongoing face time and photo ops with the President and Cabinet members is part of some sting?

In the case of John Aschcroft, Saffuri attempted to intervene in the investigation of the Safa Trust. Were aspects of the investigation at all hampered due to this intervention? Did people die as a result?

You don't know, and nor do I. But you don't appear to want to know.

Inspector Pangloss is all over the case, and everything is just fine.