Heroic Circuit City Clerk Revealed

The identity of the heroic New Jersey Circuit City employee smart enough to hand over a jihad practice tape to the opposing team, i.e. the police, has finally been revealed! Brian Morganstern appeared on CNN’s American Morning today and told all about his decision.

The two men who brought him the tape to transfer to DVD in late January 2006 seemed like ordinary customers, and he did not know if he should breach their privacy. He wasn’t even paying full attention to the video until he saw things that were troubling.

“It was more of a moral dilemma at that point,” Morganstern said on an interview Tuesday on CNN’s “American Morning.”

Do you mean to tell me that big box store employees actually care about their customers’ privacy? Please. If it was a bunch of people practicing for a porn shoot that tape would have been copied in five seconds.

Anyway, the dude doesn’t feel like a hero, choosing to label soldiers and cops as “real heroes.” He’s got his media savvy! Of course, now that he’s identified, it’s only a short matter of time before Michael Smerconish invites him on the radio so he can talk about how great profiling is.

Store Clerk Discusses Foiling Fort Dix Terror Plot [AP/CBS 3]

Circuit City Clerk Continues To Receive Accolades

The heroic Circuit City employee who turned in the tape of a terrorist training plan — oh, what cunning terrorists, sending in their Islamic terrorist tape to be dubbed on to a DVD — continues to shun media attention, perhaps aware there are other stupid terrorists out there.

But that hasn’t stopped onlookers of the heroic clerk from showering him with praise:

“I’d hug him, I’d kiss him, even if he is a guy,” shopper Warren Young of Cherry Hill said. “This is a time when our rights have to be compromised. I’m glad that guy is looking at (the training video).”

Praise Allah! But I can’t help but sympathize with this poor clerk, who won’t even get the residuals from the Law & Order episode based on this event next season.

‘Hero’ shuns media glare [Camden Courier-Post]

Just What The Feds Needed: Circuit City Employee

Unbelievably, the worker who saved the United States from another terrorist attack wasn’t your average slacker, a person you might hope could rise up in tense situations (i.e. a plan for a terrorist attack comes in on a VHS tape) and make the correct move (i.e. tell the police).

No, he wasn’t just a bored Blockbuster employee, he was a Circuit City worker! Yes, a man from one of our nation’s fine big box hellholes managed to save the world, or at least Fort Dix.

You could say someone was using his “Idea Box,” but that’s a commercial associated with Best Buy, not Circuit City.

The Star-Ledger’s Dunstan McNichol reports:

Five television news trucks and about a dozen reporters and photographers descended on the store this morning, hoping to interview the clerk who cracked the alleged plot. Store officials declined to comment. Mount Laurel police officers forbade reporters from interviewing shoppers heading in and out of the store.

Good to see Mount Laurel police are really doing a bang-up job there. Circuit City declined to make the employee available for comment, which can only mean one thing: He was one of the 3500 employees laid off.

Circuit City to Cut More Than 3,500 Jobs [AP/Yahoo!]
Circuit City clerk alerted authorities to alleged plot [The Star-Ledger Blog]
Earlier today: Mt. Laurel Video Store Clerk Did Not Appreciate Ruse