No Drama
TPM reports on how government should work: when law enforcement raids a suspected terrorist threat, they keep it quiet, waiting until they know what’s going on to release any details. Reasonable from many standpoints, including the all-important security perspective.
This was not the case under Bush. Every arrest, no matter how stupid and harmless the perps, was heralded by a huge media blitz and paraded by the administration as a security coup for political reasons, a few times even at the expense of actual security. It sometimes took only a few days to realize that they had arrested complete losers and bozos, or that the plot was unworkable or futile, but by then the public had been appropriately frightened into supporting more of Bush’s policies, and the media was less interested in detailing how the “terrorists” were nothing of the sort.
Funny how that hasn’t happened even once in the past eight months. Wonder what changed.