Well..at least they got one.
One down..about 2 million MORE to go..
Auto accident would have been better.
They've gotten far more than one. I was watching the history channel and they had a special on Al-Qaeda. They showed how parts of the Patriot Act allowed them to investigate charities and identify some of the "sleeper cells" that were funneling money to terrorists. Gosh, the Mosque leaders they jailed in Brooklyn were admittedly funneling money to Hamas.
There was also a segment on how they got the Swiss to help track down some terrorist that was communicating with some special encrypted card in a phone cell that the Swiss later found a way to track.
The scary part on the history channel was the segment on Al-Qaeda's Navy. They showed how terrorists could use the internet to misportray their vessel identification and sneak into the ports. Fortunately, they also showed agents working to infiltrate/screen the computers to look for altered data prior to port entry.
Our ports, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco are under close scrutiny by the Coast Guard, but they said that some of the terrorists could disguise their vessels to appear as fishing vessels (in the same way many drugs are smuggled in through the ports).
DUH, I watched a debate for the Los Angeles Mayor race on a local public channel earlier this week. The candidates were discussing the added pollution the port inspections are causing (vessels with cargo idling and waiting truckers at the docks are using more diesel causing more pollution).