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You know, I get that questioning authority is a good thing and skepticism of the system can be a virtue. But Jeez. The Times Square bomber was caught within 48 hours, placed into custody, and is providing us with tons of information. Not bad! What’s more, if I remember right, pretty much everything we thought we knew about the Christmas bomber in the week after his terror attempt turned out to be wrong. I know there are elections to win and all that, but maybe this time we should all calm down just a hair and wait to piece together the entire story before deciding that everything was a complete clusterfuck?
