Sunday, February 14, 2010

Looking for Jihad in All the Wrong Places

In an effort to forestall a terrorist attack on the Vancouver Olympics, Janet Nincompoopitano's crack DHS sleuths will be paying close attention to any increase in chatter on some well known "jihadi" websites (H/T Drudge):
As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.
"The Olympics are a potential target for such events," said the statement. The statement did not list all web sites and social media that the NOC will monitor, but provided 31 examples, many of them, like the Blotter, sites that cover breaking news, security, or terror...
Yeah, I know if I were trying to track down jihadis planning possible impending attacks, Drudge, the HuffPo and the Blotter is exactly where I'd concentrate my search. (That's mega-sarcasm, in case you were wondering.)

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