Ferreting out Nuclear traitors

The Department of Justice has come under considerable criticism, and rightly so, for turning a blind eye to voter intimidation and fraud.

But they may have done something right when they nabbed a man and woman who, it is alleged, wanted to sell nuclear weapons secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to agents of Venezuela.

But it was a sting by undercover FBI agents pretending to be Venezuelan spies. Here's the DOJ news release. Via NewsRealBlog.

A sting operation is a tricky thing with the sinister aspect being that they might lure someone into doing something the person might not have done without the enticement the stinger dangles in front of him. But in the field of nuclear armament we can't take chances. And hopefully a sting like this may create such a distrust of real spies that the potential traitor decides not to take the chance.