Today's New York Times includes a story headlined "The Role of an F.B.I. Informer Draws Praise as Well as Questions About Legitimacy." That story speculates on the fine line between sting and entrapment.

I borrowed that last sentence, the bit about the fine line, from the subhead of a Sept 2, 2006 story in the Washington Post: "FBI Role in Terror Probe Questioned." That story, written by hoary Post reporter Walter Pincus — of recent fame over his outing of Ari Fleischer as one of the Plame leakers — goes through the same reservations as the NY Times article, only in discussing the May 24, 2006 arrest of the Miami 7 in Liberty City for very similar reasons to the New Jersey 6.

And so it goes.