My Love Affair with SecDef Gates Continues

From ricks.foreignpolicy.com:

Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Gates revealed on the Today show this morning that there are terrorists on American soil -- and in fact, behind bars. "We have many terrorists in U.S. prisons today. I mean, this started 20 years ago when I was at CIA, and we captured a Hezbollah terrorist who had been involved in killing an American sailor on an aircraft that had been taken hostage in Beirut. We brought him to the United States, put him on trial and put him in prison."

Gates, who is a straight shooter, added, "The truth is, there's a lot of fear-mongering about this."