Miss the Rolling Stone "Fear Factory" story earlier this month, or, as its since become known, the virtual blooper reel of the government's secretive Keystone Cops? The FBI read every word of the almost 6,000-word feature about how the government is chasing ghosts to manufacture a domestic terrorism threat. Then Assistant Director John J. Miller cranked out his own screed.

It's here. "There is an old saying among reporters: The worst thing you can do to a good story is check it out. Guy Lawson ('The Fear Factory,' Rolling Stone, February 7th) brings hypothetical theory to new heights," begins former Peabody- and Emmy-winning journalist Miller, threatening Jann Wenner with the worst facial since the out-and-about editor was allegedly spotted necking with Men's Fitness casualty and sometimes-gay Neal Boulton. "After "checking it out," Mr. Lawson simply tailored his story around any compelling facts that did not fit his original premise."

He continues ...

Mr. Lawson deftly skips over 27 years of the work of the JTTFs capturing al Qaeda suspects from the first World Trade Center bombing, preventing the attacks on New York landmarks, the Embassy and USS Cole bombings, the Millennium Plot and more. Instead, Mr. Lawson narrowed his focus to cases involving small groups and "lone wolves" that planned to murder American citizens on U.S. soil.

But Miller, even with his shoulder bag full of shiny awards and silver-haired stand-up skills doesn't address the underlying premise at the heart of this story (and maybe its author didn't put it plainly enough) is this: Any nut with a head full of twisted religious principals and a suicide streak can take out himself and mess of others. That's just America.

Instead, Miller offers his own mini highlight reel—Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, D.C. Snipers John Allan Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo—and he hones in on Lawson's argument that the low-level wannabe jihadists in his story lack the means to commit serious acts off terror. "I cannot remember any victim of a terrorist attack lamenting that they wished they'd been killed by a more expensive plot."

Consider the FBI file on Lawson open, active.