I had planned on writing something up about the Arab-American Secret Service agent and American Airlines Flight 363, but both Christopher Caldwell of The Weekly Standard and Charles Johnson on Little Green Footballs have beaten me to it (in Charles’ case, twice — and boy, is he steamed!). Just a few things I’ll add, then: “Good Morning America” ran a segment on this story today, using as the sources for its “report” a CAIR press release, the testimony of a passenger who was sitting near Secret Service agent Wallid Shatter on the plane (“The agent didn’t do anything unusual, at least not that I saw”), and agent’s Shatter’s own lawyer. Charlie Gibson asked agent Wallid Shatter’s attorney — his attorney, mind you! — if (as American’s Flight 363’s pilot has claimed) her client became “belligerent” at any point during the “confrontation.” Shatter’s attorney responded, “no, not at all.” Well, I suppose that settles that, then.

Competent lawyer. Silly, misleading segment.

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