Miami Vice

So, apparently we had a terrorist cell in Miami. Nothing immanent, no bomb making materials, no weapons, no ties to Al Qaida, no foreign ties. But they were thinking about terror. Stephen Spielberg made a movie about being arrested for thinking about crime - Collateral. Perhaps it's the administration being new wave.

Could it be, though, that with the tough talk on immigration, having a terror threat in Miami, or Cuba North, is a way to make the Hispanics, in Florida at least, believe that Bush & Co are protecting them? It is election time and you know that means terror alerts. Unfortunately for Bush, having Chertof come out to say we've moved up to orange on the terror scale might seem too political, even for them. It doesn't help that Chertof looks like the devil, either.

Am I too far out on a limb here? I watched Frontline this week and I don't think so.