The Wall Street Journal says "The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance concerning their spending, travel and communications." and then attacks the ACLU and Democrats. At least someone else points out that this came from a tip by a British Muslim.
ABC has a crappy report that the FBI is investigating "a possible connection between people in the United States, in major east coast cities, and the London bomb plotters". They say the White House Homeland Security Advisor says "while there is currently no indication of any plotting in the United States... 'There are leads that the FBI is running.'" What the hell does that mean? The FBI only has jurisdiction in the US so if there's no indication what are they doing? The ABC report then confuses matters further by saying next "With at least five, and maybe more, suspects still at large, it is the missing plotters who are the greatest security concern". That's well and good, but they don't say where these people are, and by context it seems as if they are in the US, but by other accounts I think they're in Pakistan.
NBC reported yesterday that the plot was not imminent and the British wanted to wait "at least another week" to gather more evidence and to make sure that the leader Rashid Rauf was arrested "in circumstances where there was due process" and the US pressed them to act sooner. But, the Sunday talk shows mostly ignored this.
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