I’m glad I don’t have to fly for a while, but I cannot help but wonder if we have yet another contrived “plot,” like the recent one in Miami involving a true gang that could not plot straight. We have been down this road before, and since past “plots” have turned out to be full or at least partial hoaxes, I have a few questions:

1. Is there an “agent provocateur” involved? (Lew asked that in an email, and also showed me how to spell “provocateur.”) In other words, is this something like what we saw in Canada in which an agent provocateur promised to get huge amounts of fertilizer for a bomb, something that would be impossible to do in the present climate?
2. Were the “plotters” using real explosives, or was this something that an agent convinced them would work, only to find out they were mixing something akin to Crystal Light?

I don’t want to make light of real plots. After all, we have seen what happened on 9-11. Had the feds arrested these people before they boarded the plane, would I have been among the ones declaring that the plot was a hoax? I’m not sure, but that is why I am asking these questions now.