Was It "Spying"?!

The left, not surprisingly, was loud and angry in denouncing the idea for the Operation TIPS. Lefties hyperventilated at the supposed thought of "citizen spies" let loose throughout America's fruited plain.

But in practice, what the New Jersey store clerk did in alerting authorities to the jihadist DVD was precisely the kind of activity that Operation TIPS was designed to facilitate.

One other point: It's worth asking the lefties whether they'd throw the evidence out and let these terrorists go free if their plot had been identified via a (domestic) wiretap that the FISA court hadn't authorized.