[Uncle Miltie]

"Mr. Clarke summoned up the terrorist bound for Los Angeles to bomb the airport, but apprehended by authorities owing, Clarke suggested, to the kind of priority given, in the late '90s, to potential terrorist activity."

This is patently false. The New Year's Eve bomber, caught arriving by ferry in Port Angeles, Washington, was identified by an alert grandmotherly immigration worker who exercised racial profiling.

"He just looked hinky to me," said the woman who stopped the attack.

Tell me that Clarke had something to do with the intuitions of a 60-something logger's wife in Port Angeles, and I'll sell you some swamp land.

[Eva]

The border crossing guard was just doing what she does all day, asking questions, and running searches on people who give the wrong answers. Heck, I know people who have had their whole car dismantled at the border for giving a wrong answer or going across too often.

[beelzepug]

"He just looked hinky to me,"

Of course, when he bailed out of the car and had to be pursued on foot through downtown Port Angeles, it was obvious to authorities that he wasn't your average tourist.

[CyberAnt]

Port Angeles in right on the Canadian border, right?

I remember reading about this story and it's scary. We need more border watchers like that woman!