As the Times Square, New York City “bomb plot” arrest unfolded, local and federal law enforcement officials along with the media were all too quick and giddy to divulge the tactics they used to nab the suspect Faisal Shahzad and begin to build a case against the Pakistan Taliban. As the details of disposable phones, clandestine vehicle and gun purchases, even the proper way to totally disguise and/or remove VIN numbers from stolen vehicles unfolded I wondered why we needed to know about the brilliant techniques the NYPD and the FBI used to grab this guy. Better yet, why not just publish a book on “The Top Secret Techniques of the Joint Terrorist Task Force” and sell it on EBay?

I’m not taking anything away from the excellent leg work of the officials involved in the case, not in the least. I’m simply concerned that each time we detail our detective work all we do is educate the “bad guys” on how to do it better next time. Pretty simple stuff. In law enforcement tactics, I’m not digging that level of transparency.

Then, I thought about it. Apparently there are some in our government and in the media that want to lead with the particulars and grab some microphone time. I’ve an idea. You want to do facet reporting, how about the inner facets of the FED.

According in an article this morning in the Daily Caller, a bill trying to gain support in Congress would call for the GAO to audit the FED. Those are the aspects, the intimate minutia I want to know about. Now that’s detail worth discerning.

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