One might think, given the perceived threat and the vaunted response, there'd be a story once in a while about plots thwarted, terrorists arrested, cells uncovered... One might think Der Sicherheitsdienst des Vaterlandes - oops, I mean Homeland Security - would be all too happy to brag about the job it's doing.

Instead, we've had one idiot with loaded footware, a couple of arrests for alleged financing of offshore terrorists, and an occasional story about airport screeners failing live drills.

Or is this another case of facts being withheld from the public "in the interests of national security" - a.k.a., saved up to be used to surprise the growing opposition - such as was proposed in this forum for the absence of evidence in Iraq?

The "willing suspension of disbelief" is supposed to be applied to Fiction, not Government.