IS HOLDER COMING ON BOARD? – AT 9:25 A.M. ET:  There have been a few signs recently that Attorney General Eric Holder has read the election returns and is entering the real world.  Welcome, Eric!  Make sure to take advantage of the free gifts from local merchants!  From ABC News:

Attorney General Eric Holder has an urgent message for Americans: While he is confident that the United States will continue to thwart attacks, "the terrorists only have to be successful once."

And while it is not certain we will be hit, the American people, he told ABC News, "have to be prepared for potentially bad news."

"What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant," he said.

In a rare and wide-ranging interview, the attorney general disclosed chilling new details about the evolving threat of homegrown terror, and touched on topics ranging from Wikileaks to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

What was uppermost on his mind, however, is the alarming rise in the number of Americans who are more than willing to attack and kill their fellow citizens.

"It is one of the things that keeps me up at night," Holder said. "You didn't worry about this even two years ago -- about individuals, about Americans, to the extent that we now do. And -- that is of -- of great concern."

"The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens -- raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born," he said.

In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, Fifty of those people are American citizens.

COMMENT:  A thoughtful warning, especially at holiday time.  Sooner or later, one of these radical groups will get lucky.  All it takes is the ability to wire a bomb correctly. 

And yesterday we learned of an Al Qaeda plan to poison our food supply. 

Even if 99 out of 100 terror plots evaporate or fail, the one remaining plot can do devastating damage, as we learned on 9-11.

December 21, 2010