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Hezbollah and Al Qaeda agents apparently arrested near Mexican border
Here’s a story that is both concerning and maddening. Robert Mueller, that chronically guilty-looking fellow who runs the FBI (what a great symbol of American law enforcement), apparently told a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last week that the FBI had arrested Hezbollah operatives being smuggled across the Mexican border by other Hezbollah operatives. I say apparently because the only source for the story is NewsMax’s “Inside Cover” edited by “Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com staff,” who, as I know from past experience, post anything that comes across the transom. Thus Limbacher/NewsMax.com staff give no source for the story. How did they know it? Did they get it from a wire service? A newspaper? Did they have a stringer covering the committee hearing? They don’t say. The entire story is barely 200 words long. I did a Google search, and many other sites have the same story, but it’s simply a reproduction of NewsMax’s inadequate account. It may be true, but I don’t regard an unsourced story from NewsMax as anything I can depend on. Such is journalism in the Internet age.
The same Newsmax item contains a report that an Al Qaeda operative was captured in Mexico near the Mexico-U.S. border and handed over to the FBI. This bare-bones information was given to Sean Hannity by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas. But why was such an important story not reported by regular news agencies? Why is it only coming from a Congressman mentioning it to talk show host? Email entry |