LAT on Padilla

The LAT is all aflutter today over the conviction of Jose Padilla in Miami. If only Padilla had been set free then the LAT would have been happy, or so it seems. But a jury of his peers found he really was a bad guy, out to do harm to the country of his birth. The LAT argues that the government switched course in midstream, dropping the original "dirty bomb" allegations, and that must mean the "dirty bomb" allegations were false. But it also could mean the government couldn't convict Padilla on that without exposing intelligence sources and methods. But the LAT chooses to believe the worst about the Bush administration. Nothing new there.