"Article Three courts have a long track record of success, proving that federal prosecutions can often be the most effective mechanism for gathering useful intelligence, neutralizing a threat, and keeping a dangerous individual behind bars," Hayden said.
Is the level of violence, "which was extreme and way beyond neutralizing a threat," consistent with what a victim of abuse would do?
"It's quite obvious that passengers are now willing and able to neutralize a perceived threat," he said.
For the past three years, officials at the Missile Defense Agency have worked overtime to create a system that they say will neutralize a missile threat from North Korea.
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), which oversees the observatory, said the organization was cooperating with law enforcement as they worked to neutralize a potential "threat to the safety of local staff and residents".
Greenwald, who is close to Snowden, said that the U.S. has threatened and is "willing to take even the most extreme steps if they think doing so is necessary to neutralize a national security threat".
It agreed to the deployment of parts of NATO's antimissile shield, which is meant to neutralize a supposed Iranian missile threat.
Many commentators said the new rightist merger would neutralize any threat from such a coalition of center and leftist parties.
Japan chose to continue with its plans, but decided it needed to neutralize any threat from the United States first.
"We neutralized a clear public threat," the Suffolk County police commissioner, Timothy Sini, said in a press conference, likening the potential threat the Perkowski brothers posed to that preceding the tragic Orlando mass shooting last Sunday.
And analysts note that Obama's fortunes could shift abruptly if he successfully manages a sudden terrorist danger, or manages to seal a good nuclear deal with Iran, thus neutralizing a major security threat.
