This is a delicate topic. But Christopher Christie — the very political US Attorney for District of New Jersey — seems 
intent on saying stupid things about his shoulder-launched missile smuggling case against Hemant Lakhani. For me, it’s quite enough that Lakhani was willing to sell terrorists weapons to shoot down civilian airliners. But Christie isn’t quite willing to give up the al Qaida connection.
Christie says Lakhani may well himself have been an al Qaida sympathizer.
How do we know that?. Thus Christie: “There is no question that Mr. Lakhani was someone who was sympathetic to the beliefs of the terrorists who were trying to do damage to our country. He, on many occasions in recorded conversations, referred to Americans as bastards [and] Osama bin Laden as a hero who had done something right and set the Americans straight.”
Now, as I’ve said, if Lakhani was trying to sell plane-downing weapons to terrorists, that’s more than enough for me. He’s a rat. Toss the key, and so forth. Maybe he is an al Qaida sympathizer. But this is pretty feeble evidence.
What exactly do we expect the guy to say when he’s talking to our undercover agents posing as al Qaida? “I’m happy to sell you fellows these shoulder-fired missiles. But I do think that whole September 11th business was a bit much. I’m not telling you your business. It’s a free country. But I’m just sayin’.”
Why can’t they just promote this as an effective sting operation against a certified rat , rather than making foolish statements like these.
