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In four years they couldn't catch bin Laden. But in a matter of days, though, they caught a soldier vandalizing Bush bumper stickers by using a bait car:

A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force has admitted to vandalizing cars bearing pro-President Bush bumper stickers at Denver International Airport.

Denver police say he's responsible for thousands of dollars in damage to at least 12 cars.

Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, 42, of Colorado Springs turned himself in to Denver police Friday.

He is director of reserve operations at the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, in charge of more than 40 full-time and traditional reservists.

In the arrest affidavit, police say that after they conducted a sting operation, Fecteau admitted to damaging several cars.

"It was pretty good police work," said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson. "You still have a right to express yourself in this country, and you shouldn't have your car vandalized because of it."

Jackson said that in late June, a detective parked a bait car adorned with a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper sticker in the west economy lot at DIA. On July 1, a security camera recorded a man spray-painting something on the car. The bumper sticker was painted over, and the words "(expletive) Bush" were spray-painted on the side of the car.

Pretty good police state work, indeed.

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