American Muslim held in plot to deploy 'dirty bomb' in U.S.

Now we will see whether it would have done any good to pick up the 9/11 hijackers before they carried out their plot.

I expect to hear a lot in the press soon about how the rights of Abdullah Al Mujahir, also known as Jose Padilla, have been and are being violated, how this is just a reaction to all the recent criticism of the FBI and CIA, and more from CAIR about how this is racial profiling. Get set for the onslaught.

One of the points Ronald Kesser makes is that it makes no sense to have agencies like the FBI and CIA and then not trust them. Apparently, the Clinton Administration was more worried about being politicallly correct than in protecting the country, and Louis Freeh was more interested in playing political games than in making the FBI truly effective and secure. We are lucky to have Bob Mueller in place. He has already done more than most of us realize to clean up the mess he inherited. But you won't hear this from then WaPo and the NYTimes.