Female Logic of the Old Grey Lady Lyin' Again

James Taranto has again caught the NYT in its litany of absurdities:

What a difference a presidential election can make. Suddenly the anti-antiterror left is applauding the U.S. government's antiterror efforts. The New York Times has a fascinating quote on the indictment of Najibullah Zazi for allegedly planning bombings in New York:

T

he Zazi case "actually looks like the case the government kept claiming it had but never did," said Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University law school.
Her center has studied all the prosecutions of terrorism-related crimes since 2001, and she said many had turned out to be "fantasy terrorism cases" where the threat seemed modest or even nonexistent.
This time, she said, "the ingredients here are quite scary," and the government's statements have had none of the bombast and exaggeration that accompanied some previous arrest announcements.

So let's see if we have this straight: For the past eight years, when George W. Bush was turning the world against us and making the terror threat worse, there were no serious terror plots. Now that the world loves us again, suddenly a serious terror threat has materialized. What's wrong with this picture?

Hats off to James and the WSJ for unmasking still another victim of academicide showing herself a total and compleat [DNC] partisan. Ms. Greenburg obviously believes Richard Reid and others who tried to blow up aircraft in trans-Atlantic flights weren't "quite scary."

For that, I'll guess she'd have to take a long look in her mirror.