Has cable news ever reported on this guy who was building a dirty bomb?

[NNN0LHI]

http://jonathanstray.com/maine-man-tries-to-build-dirty-bomb

Maine Man Tries to Build Dirty Bomb, No One Cares

<snip>This is all very strange, and I am left with questions.

Given this foiled plot, the sadly successful Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, and other deranged loners such as the Una-bomber, what is the actual risk to the public from foreign jihadists versus homegrown wackjobs, of which there are apparently plenty? {UPDATE: See also the Texas militia with a sodium cyanide bomb in 2003}

Do the DHS and the FBI know the true answer to this question? Are they allocating their resources appropriately? How come we only found out about this plot accidentally?

Again, the mainstream media still haven’t touched the story. Would this have been an instant headline if the guy was Muslim?

If domestic terrorists don’t count, why not? Is it because they’re useless in justifying foreign wars? Or is mostly ignoring them the right response, implying that we are far too jumpy about terrorism in general?

This is completely ridiculous in so many ways. When do we, as a culture, decide to think rationally about terrorism?

[Howardx]

1. is that the rich right winger?

i have only read blog stuff about him.

[rvablue]

2. Rachel Maddow did. That's the only place I've seen it. n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. It was publicized when

his wife murdered him. I read the coverage in several outlets, but I'm not sure any of them were mainstream.

Big surprise, huh?

[KamaAina]

4. Rachel had it about a month ago

http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/29676733

And that brings us to the new American dirty bomb news that worryingly is not totally abstract. On December 9th, in the small town of Belfast, Maine, which is between Bangor and Portland, police responded to an emergency call. Thirty-one-year-old Amber Cummings have reportedly shot and killed her husband, James, after what she says were years of mental, physical and sexual abuse—allegations seemingly corroborated by tradesmen who had done work in the home and who had described James Cummings as abusive and his wife as cowering in his presence.

Upon entering the home, police reportedly found material linking Mr. Cummings to white supremacist groups, including an application he had filled out to join the National Socialist Movement, and yes, that's national socialist as in Nazi.

Mr. Cummings had told neighbors he was a Nazi. He had bragged about his admiration for Adolf Hitler. He had bragged about owning Nazi memorabilia, including Hitler's cutlery and place settings. What kind of self-respecting Nazi collects place settings? Dessert spoons?...

Now, the reason this isn't just a dead jerk story, a domestic violence story, a local extremist gone bad story, is because of what else was found in James Cummings' house. According to a leaked document from the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center, "State authorities detected radiation emissions in four small jars in the house." They were labeled "uranium metals" as well as one jar labeled "thorium."