“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI are investigating a possible plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush with a truck bomb in Tallahassee, law enforcement officials confirmed Thursday.

“The governor, who had been out of state on a fundraising trip, was ‘safe and in good spirits,’ FDLE officials said. He returned to Tallahassee late Thursday from a fundraising trip in Pennsylvania,” The Miami Herald reports.

The story about the alleged plot came from a confidential informant, jailed in Broward County, who said at least four men with Arab names were trying to contract someone to drive a truckload of explosives to Tallahassee today and blow up the governor.

Agents have been uncertain how much weight to give the information; the informant has failed several lie-detector tests and may simply be trying to cut a deal with prosecutors in his own criminal case, investigators said.

But the information has also panned out at least once: On Thursday, his tip led investigators to a van in Broward County that apparently contained traces of explosives.

‘Just when we’re ready to discount the inmate, we get a nugget,” said one agent involved in the investigation.

Even should this story prove to be a hoax, it nevertheless serves as a reminder that we are at war, and that it’s very likely enemy soldiers are living here on our soil, plotting future attacks. Which is what makes all this quibbling over the trial procedures of non-citizen combatants all the more infuriating. Out of uniform saboteurs operating from our soil should be tried militarily and, if found guilty, dispatched. Our success in Afghanistan (and in silencing the Arab street) in large part was due to our show of determined and overwhelming force; we might try sending a similar message to those of our enemies who are learning (unfortunately) that U.S. soil may be the safest place from which to operate against us …

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