May 11, 2007
Why the Media Minimizes the Fort Dix Terror Plot (Dick Morris)
The mainstream media insist on minimizing terror threats that our intelligence operatives quash before they can wreak mayhem and kill our people. They did it with the Sears Tower raid, the jets that were going to be destroyed over the Atlantic, the millenium attack on LAX airport, the shoe bomber, the Brooklyn Bridge attack, and Padilla the would-be dirty bomber. In each case, the media is fond of writing how the gang could never have gotten it together to pull off the raid. They portray the attackers as clowns who were disorganized and just dabblers in terror whose case is being hyped by the right wing to stoke terror fears.
But these characterizations of real threats we faced and, thanks to our homeland security forces, thwarted are quite wrong and distorted. Had these liberal critics interviewed Mohammed Atta and his gang of 9/11 hijackers, they might have come to the same conclusion.
The blunt fact is that the liberals do not want us to take terrorists seriously because they want us to vote Democrat and not be pushed by our legitimate fears into supporting Republican candidates. But this partisanship goes way too far. It belittles the efforts of those who work to protect us and minimizes the very real dangers they help us to avert every day.
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Dick Morris, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're…little, in the mind and in the heart. You try to make a woman, like Hillary Clinton out a monster. She whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out…you're even littler than you were before.
Comment by Wil Burns — May 11, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Yes, Dick this is political evolution in action. In the real world, ostriches that bury their head in the sand the deepest get eaten by lions. In the political world, they get elected. But that will only last until the next really successful lion.
Comment by Igor R. — May 11, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
It also makes them, the media, look like fools. Every bill comes due one day.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — May 11, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
Wil Burns, this is the most moving tribute to Hillary I have ever heard. Whatever she is normally characterized at, it's not a "giant". Wow, the Iron Pantsuite Lady, the Healthcare avenger, the one who will humanize Marxism and make palatable in America. I know her investment success is legendary, and now Wil Burns tells us she is the great one in other areas. I'm holding by breath and waiting for the reign of this magnificent over-achiever!
Comment by Igor R. — May 11, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Dick, just like the Miami terrorist group, these suppose terrorist had no weapons, no money and were led by the informant that infiltrated them. The reason that there is no story is because these guys were set-up. Now think, Dick, why would six guys try to attack a military base where those folk do carry guns and know how to use them. Dick, please, I'm going to lend you a quarter so that you can buy a clue.
Comment by Mike Coleman — May 11, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
Thanks; but your stating the obvious, even we, the great unwashed realize the collusion here. Liberals all know and like it, the rest of us know it and can't seem to effect it. Give us the help and info to paint the liars yellow.
Comment by chaz — May 11, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
Yeah, you're right Robert. The bills have come due for you neocon-types. Check out your GOP now. Your ship is sinking and you got your feet nailed to the deck. Bon voyage!
Comment by Chris in NM — May 11, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
On the contrary Mr. Morris, this liberal takes counterterrorism efforts very seriously, which is exactly why I want to see a Democrat in the White House as soon as possible (or at the very least, a competent Republican).
There always have been, and always will be those that plot acts of terrorism in this country. Some are the disorganized crackpots, some are organized professional killers, but most have been and will continue to be stopped through good intelligence and counterterrorism measures.
But it was this Republican administration that dropped the ball, remember? With one of the Republican candidates as mayor of New York? This administration that ignored counterterrorism experts until it was too late, and then created thousands of new potential terrorists by invading and occupying Iraq.
Now, considering I live in Chicago and how close I work to the Sears Tower, I'd really feel a lot more comfortable with a President that really understood how to stop terrorist attacks (as opposed to invading the wrong country or selling our ports to Dubai). So please, continue to point out the increased terrorist activity under Bush (I wonder why?) and how much harder our counterterrorism agents are having to work because of the additional funding they could be receiving that's being pissed away in Iraq.
Maybe even a few neocons will take the hint.
Comment by Derek D. — May 11, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
Dick: It's no use trying to convice liberals of the threat. They need to see proof like, mushroom clouds, dead children on a playground, and planes in the side of a tower. And even then they will find a way to minimize the importance of diligent intelligence. Vote for them and the threat goes away. They are insane…
Comment by Rich — May 11, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
Derek you may care because of your geographical location, but to believe that liberal politicians care about counter-terrorism is like saying that wolves are vegetarian. It's patently untrue, and it will never be true because it's not in their DNA.
Liberalism is only about victims and opressors, and trasferring money and power from the latter to the former. Once you convince a victim that they are one and give them something from the government, you got a friend for life, and a reliable voter to keep you in power.
Comment by Igor R. — May 11, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
Chris. It's not unusual for the weak minded to attack other posters. If you have a message fine. Just makes one wonder why the scum always have to attack someone personally for expressing an opinion. It's because they have no valid opinions of their own.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — May 12, 2007 @ 10:16 am
The "liberal media" are reporting flat out facts in the case and "Warmonger media" are hyping minor BS.
Home grown terrorists supported by an FBI agent to obtain weapons etc. is just more wild eyed BS propped up on false legs by Conservative press that ignores any factual evidence and pushes only the EMOTIONAL FEAR buttons of their constituency.
These idiot "TERRORISTS" were too stupid not to get caught.
Comment by Donald — May 12, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
Aren't all criminals stupid in a way?
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — May 12, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
Donald, of course you trust the liberal media. That media was all over the identity of the Salt Lake City killer. Maybe the liberal media should run a few articles about how Kosovo Albanians are SO greatful to this country for carving out a little homeland for them out of Seriba and how much they want to express their gratitude.
Comment by Igor R. — May 12, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
Igor R. Those nice Conservative pundits were so sure those were Arab Islamists it's hard to notice.
People raised in the US Illegal or not have little in common with those living in their "homeland".
Comment by Donald — May 13, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
Igor R. it only took a year for their FBI agent leader to convince them to attack a military base.
Comment by Donald — May 13, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
Donald, it's just an illustration how religious solidarity for this group trumps any other affiliation. I've never heard anything about their FBI agent leader and his attempts to convince them of anything, so I can't comment on your last post.
Comment by Igor R. — May 13, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
"…illustration how religious solidarity.."
You mean like Pat Robertson's 150 Religious fanatic lawyers in Bush's Administration that are systematically weeding out all those other undesirable Lawyers who believe in the Constitutional separation of Church and State?
Comment by Donald — May 14, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
"CHERRY HILL, N.J. - He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
These were not the actions of a terrorist but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey’s Fort Dix.
And those actions have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed.
It is an argument — entrapment — that has been made in other terrorism cases, and one that has failed miserably in this post-Sept. 11 era.
One defense attorney on the case, Troy Archie, said no decision has been made on whether to argue entrapment, but based on the FBI’s own account, “the guys sort of led them on.”
Rocco Cipparone, a lawyer for another one of the defendants, said he will take a hard look at “the role of paid informants and how aggressive they were in potentially prodding or moving things along.”"
Wait and See!
Comment by Donald — May 14, 2007 @ 2:15 pm