Threat From Without...or Within?

Is this a trick question?

Threat From Without...or Within? | Diatribune:

Who presents a greater threat to American society - international terrorists, or the current caretakers of the federal government?

The recent United Kingdom bombing buffoonery provided further evidence that the rhetorical bark of the global jihad may be worse than its operational ability to bite. Conversely, President Bush's liberation of Scooter Libby confirmed that there are no legal or ethical boundaries that his administration will not cross to satisfy its own ends.

Is the War on Terror more dangerous than the terrorists? Is Al Qaeda merely a straw man cast as a formidable foe in order to cow the masses and keep neo-cons in power? Read on for a discussion for the true nature of the threat posed by each side of this tangled equation...