I know the story's already well-broken, and this is perhaps a bit thin as a diary subject, but I want to be sure this aspect is out here.
Through the magic of TiVo and my patience in replaying and transcribing that distasteful network, here's an original source telling us How Secure Our Homeland Really Is: Polk County Florida Sheriff Grady Judd, as interviewed by CNN's Heidi Collins, commencing at 10:34 EST tonight, 4/4:
(Gotta put it below the fold to make this a diary... but it's worth it, I think)
"Heidi, what stands out to me the most in this particular case was the fact that Brian, on his first conversation with our undercover detective who he believed to be a fourteen year-old girl, clearly identified himself as the Deputy Press Secretary for Homeland Security... and if he would provide that kind of information -- to include a photograph of himself, with his identification tags -- who else may he be talking to around the world, who he thinks to be a fourteen-year-old girl?"
Emphasis mine.
Alrighty, Republicans, which do you plan to run on this season: your superior morality, or your superior ability to outwit the terrorists?