Mr Romano apparently tried to overpower one of the terrorists, which is when he was shot.
"The bill is still prepared to use citizenship as a frame for punishing terrorists, which is counterproductive.
Others can be tried under the law against providing material support to terrorists, which is written very broadly.
(This summer, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld floated "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism"—a more accurate term, and less flattering to terrorists, which was immediately shot down by the President).
"The last month of 1956 brought a total of 41 eliminations of terrorists, which is average for the year," the director, G C Madoc, noted.
Once in a while the political storm created by counterterrorist campaigns does benefit the terrorists, which is why the gamble makes sense.
But the threat level from dissident groups has not been raised, staying at "substantial" – lower than the overall danger to the UK from Islamist terrorists, which is "severe" and indicates an attempted attack is likely to take place.
The richest source of evidence implicating Mr bin Laden may prove to be the large number of telephone calls and e-mails between known terrorists which were intercepted after the attack.
There were no claims of responsibility, but an Indian official blamed the attack on "foreign terrorists," which is coded language understood to refer to India's neighbor and nuclear rival, Pakistan.
From their perspective, foreclosing on a tangible achievement like Bergdahl's freedom to preserve a rhetorical purity against negotiating with terrorists – which is a white lie – is foreign policy malpractice.
