The use of the word "admits" as in "Brooks admits" is rather strange don't you think? If a person admits something it means he is part of it. Brooks is often identified as "conservative' but he is a squishy conservative at best. Anything Brooks says is his opinion which has been all over the map from the use of Troops in Iraq to his former support of John McCain. You almost gotta laugh that the TSA chief has been fired (reassigned) today because 96% of (fake) bombs were not detected and about a thousand TSA badges have been stolen. The fact that the liberal media doesn't consider this to be a "scandal" will tell you the whole story.