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NBC and ABC each aired an eccentric note from the War on Terrorism. ABC's Chris Cuomo brought us Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old from suburban Philadelphia, who goes by the online nom de guerre Jihad Jane. She is under arrest for a conspiracy to murder Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist "after he drew Allah with the body of a dog." Cuomo checked with his unidentified sources in "the intelligence community" and found them scratching their heads: "It remains to be seen whether Jihad Jane is a real threat." Also a mystery: how Vilks knew what image to use to represent Allah; I think Cuomo meant the Prophet Mohammed.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell focused on the Keep America Safe campaign of Liz Cheney, the former Second Daughter. She released an online video demanding to know the identities of the al-Qaeda 7. That is the nickname she gave to seven defense lawyers who now have jobs in the Department of Justice. Among their onetime clients were defendants in terrorism cases. Mitchell turned to Kenneth Starr, the former prosecutor of Bill Clinton, now a law school dean, for commentary. The lawyers "deserve commendation" for acting in the fine tradition of the legal profession. Anyway, the Justice Department pointed out, the identities of the seven were no secret but "available to anyone who bothered to Google."
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