More good news - Napolitano met with Islamist front groups, sharing information with them
Snips: In the literature it's called cooptation. You reach out to organizations and try to make your goals, their goals.
The only problem is that cooptation works both ways. The goal is for you to be the dog wagging them, the tail; but sometimes the tail wags the dog, doesn't it?
For instance, the ongoing case of the al Qaeda connected would be terrorist Najibullah Zazi comes to mind. The FBI had reached out to Zazi's former imam who had cooperated with them in the past in hopes of getting a line on what Zazi was up to. Zazi's imam then turned around and warned Zazi's family that the FBI was looking for him.
And this was all, of, what? A few months ago. The imam was only indicted in October of last year.
How's that coopting of radical Islamists going for you there DHS?
With Napolitano the question is “Who is co-opting whom?”
She’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.