If LE is going to catch the guy, the last thing they should do is encourage him to lay low. There's a good chance that Moose's statements about the information being noncredible is simply to lull the guy into a false sense of security to get him moving again.
That's possible but my gut reaction is that is not what is transpiring here. My belief is that LE has know for some time that this is a terrorist assault but are scared shirtless as to what the public backlash against Arabs living in this country would be if that was disclosed. And I would even agree that that is a valid concern.
A lot of comments on this thread is negative to LE, well I think that the rush to judgement media deserves a good proportion of that negativity. They can't hold water. They are informing the killer or killers of LE every move. They will be the death of all of us one day. Sure there are things we need to know, but what we need to know is the thruth and not what the media and talking heads speculate. On Monday, a couple of hours before the HD murder, Jerry Nachman on MSNBC all but bet his life on the guy whose girlfriend had grazed him over the weekend and was under police questioning was the guy.
I believe this to be apart of the terrorist movement, we have the Portland arrest, the American soldiers shot in Kuwait on the same day the Maryland shootings started. I may be wrong, but I have always thought this is related to the terrorist.