Logical as ABC

I don't want to seem too hard on Fran Kelly. She's a good journo, who can give an equally hard time to the Left as to the Right. But this morning I had to wonder. She had Philip Ruddock on, and for ten solid minutes, she pointlessly pressured him to reveal details of the terrorist threat that PM Howard had announced. In other words, she was doing her best to get Ruddock to compromise an action against a terrorist threat. When he resolutely refused to do so, she turned around and acccused the Government of...compromising the action against a terrorist threat by Howard's announcement.