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Only ABC covered the debate on the campaign trail between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain over the War on Terrorism. Obama endorsed the use of federal courts to prosecute suspected terrorists and to hear appeals against detention by Guantanamo Bay inmates. Jake Tapper quoted the McCain riposte that Obama "viewed terrorism as purely a law enforcement matter, not a war." Tapper quoted Obama's further riposte that Republicans "use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid to win elections." Tapper saw Obama as being "determined not to fall into the national security trap that befell John Kerry in 2004" and implied that the GOP tactic may turn out to be ineffective, calling it "a familiar debate in a vastly different political landscape." Tapper did not explain what those vast differences are.
On CBS, Bob Orr had an example of the use of law enforcement to prosecute terrorists. He went behind the scenes of the Toledo Ohio trio convicted of a suicide bomb plot against GIs in Iraq on the evidence of an "ex-commando working undercover for the FBI." The three never made it to Iraq but they did contact a pair in Chicago who communicated with two Atlanta students who were in touch with a group in Toronto who reported to Irahbi 007, a "shadowy al-Qaeda Webmaster" based in London. Irahbi 007 was suspected of coordinating plots against the US Capitol and landmark buildings in Toronto. "None of these plots even came close. All were busted," Orr reassured us.
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