No Credit

Okay, so the FBI and the Bush Administration break up a terrorist plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel, and it's not front page news? Even the Drudge Report doesn't have it at the top of their page! Bush just can't catch a break, can he? Bet it would have been front page news if it had been successful.

Rush has some quotes from Chuck Schumer, who can't keep himself from putting a negative spin on the news. That little weasel is sickening. Rush also shows how the media was nearly orgasmic last week, saying how the Supreme Court decision last week regarding military tribunals was such a defeat for Bush, but are they trumpeting how this breakup of a terrorist plot is a victory for Bush? Are you kidding?

And don't forget the good economic news. Look at these graphs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Matt Margolis over at Blogs for Bush reports:

With 121,000 jobs created last month, the Bush economic boom has created 5.4 million jobs since August 2003. Nearly two million jobs have been created over the past 12 months, and the unemployment rate is 4.6%, which is lower than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

I can't seem to find that in my local newspaper, can you? Guess it's up to us to get the news out.

JASmius adds: More on that foiled al Qaeda-sponsored plot:

One DOJ source indicated that this case initially took off from monitoring of chat rooms that had been identified as havens for some of the plotters....The chat room activity allowed investigators to target several individuals, and at that stage, the DOJ source believes there is a good chance monitoring of certain bank account activity would have taken place. Without going into too great a detail, the source explained that U.S. investigators have identified a series of "tells" - some enabled by SWIFT and other monitoring tools - that help them determine when the time is ripe or necessary to move on plotters.

The feds were lurking in chat rooms because "counter-terrorism officials have noted a marked downturn in the use of cell phone and landline communications." Also to be noted is that this plot was disrupted before the New York Times exposed the SWIFT program, and that the late, flambéd Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was in on it.

The best we can hope for now is that terrorist attacks can be averted piecemeal, because rolling up the networks themselves has been rendered functionally impracticable, according to the Prowler's DOJ source:

"If you go back and look at some of our more successful anti-terrorism cases, they have focused on taking down entire networks. How do we do that? From the inside, peeling off a lead actor, turning him and using him to keep the plot moving forward so we can trace everyone else, the money, the accounts, the weapons dealers, everyone. I'll just note that we weren't able to do that with this case and leave it at that. We could have, but we weren't able to. You'll have to do the math for the Times."

Now that the terrorists have been informed that they're not safe in chatrooms either, I wonder how they'll communicate now. And I wonder whether the good guys will be able to figure it out in time with the Enemy Media's bugle & anvil chorus providing its blatting, concussing prelude to their increasingly futile skulking.

Cap'n Ed and Strata-Sphere have more, including the update from Hot Air that the terrorist target was actually the NY-NJ PATH train.