I fervently hope the feds are paying attention to this behind the scenes. I understand the difficulty of publicly raising suspicion (until some actual plots, like this one, are uncovered) but I sure hope that people have been monitoring these prison groups for some time.
I'm sure that these groups have been and are being monitored.
In fact when we have these discussions and identify these groups on Free Republic, that probably forces more scrutiny and a quicker "cleansing" response.
The last thing the investigators want is another Able Danger flare up across the nation. One can only imagine the uproar if these acts had been carried out. Then, when, the American public found out about the recruitment in jails and encouragement in the mosques after the recruits left jail.
Then, when word got out that these jihadists and their groups had been identified and discussed on Free Republic for months and maybe years, that might make Able Danger seem like a tempest in a tea pot.
It was probably no accident or coincidence that the Jihadists in Lodi were rooted up and taken out of action shortly after the data/articles were posted on FR and other conservative sites.
The other benefit of these discussions on Free Republic, is how quickly many conservative talk show hosts and writers start covering what we are discussing. Of course many pretend that they have researched the data and found the guilty. Who cares as long as our home grown Jihadists are 'rooted' out of their spider holes.