Kinda makes you wonder...

Does anyone else find this...strange?

NBC: U.S. aircraft joins sniper hunt

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has approved deployment of an Army intelligence plane to aid federal and local law enforcement in the hunt for the Washington-area sniper, who claimed his latest victim, an FBI analyst, as she loaded her car at a Virginia mall Monday night.

Sure, this is becoming a high-profile case and I understand why, unlike say Michael Moore (quoted in a report over at Ain't It Cool News as saying “forty people a day are killed by guns, why are their death any less important? Cover them every day. The sniper, as bad as it is, distracts us from the real issue.”).

But why the military hardware? Because this is the Washington Beltway? Because it is such a high-profile case? Or is there something more going on? Oh, conspiracy paranoia runs rampant....