For once, I almost agree with the mainstream media. ABC News is actually sort of right.
This missile smuggling story is almost a non-story. Ok, let's call it page 10 news.
There was no supplier of missiles (that guy was a Russian agent working with the U.S.), and there was no one to fire the missiles (the "buyer" was an FBI agent). The only person who existed was an intermediary between two nonexistent parties.
The fact that the "ringleader" (Hemant Lakhani) was a scumbag does not somehow make the situation more dangerous to anyone. This guy might have some real contacts who could supply him with arms to sell, and if that's the case, it's good that we got him. But the media (and here's what ABC leaves out) has turned this sting operation into an actual plan that was thwarted.
If this was a guy who didn't really have any contacts, but was just willing to finance a terrorist attack, then the whole sting operation worries me. There are real terrorists out there, and real terrorist financiers, whom we should be doing something about.
Whatever the case, it's the media who have blown up this story beyond proportion. Not the government.
