On June 4 of 2007, The Smoking Gun posted a story entitled "Google As Terror Tool?", and subtitled "JFK terror plotter directed cohorts to use satellite mapping service".
Here's an excerpt:
JUNE 4--One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility.
This 'revelation' is wholly unremarkable. We are essentially being informed that, in the year 2007, many people use these fancy newfangled internet maps instead of paper maps.
The Smoking Gun may have just as well written a story on how these alleged would-be terrorists are known to have travelled by modern motorcar rather than by horse or camel.
Another excerpt:
Kadir, a Guyanese citizen and former member of that country's parliament, made the Google suggestion during a February meeting with an alleged co-conspirator and a government informant...
It wouldn't have taken a meeting to come up with this plan. It's not even a 'plan', it is the default choice. If someone wants to use a map, he will use a map. Of course they used an internet map.
That's what people do.