VANESSA LEGGETT UPDATE: I’ve got a column on the curious Vanessa Leggett case in today’s (Thursday’s) Wall Street Journal.

UPDATE: I should have mentioned when I posted the above last night — but I was too tired — that for reasons of length the WSJ cut a point that I think is worth making. In the Leggett case, the DOJ and FBI have acted like thugs, and incompetent thugs at that. This is always bad, but it’s especially bad when you’re fighting terrorists and the DOJ and FBI are the frontline troops in doing so domestically. They need to be trusted, and inspire confidence. Instead, they’ve shot themselves in the foot.