Time to deny prestige to terrorists

When is the White House going to stop commenting on the weird threats of al Qaeda sociopaths and leave the opining to others down the government food chain?

President Bush and other senior US officials, like President Clinton before, have inflated the authority and prestige of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists by commenting on them publicly and repeatedly naming them by name.

It's a silly and counterproductive policy that has not aided the war on terror, and arguably has undermined it.