From Wikipedia about the journalist:
Annie Jacobsen is an American journalist who writes about business, finance and terrorism for a variety of national and international magazines and webzines and in particular WomensWallStreet. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and two sons. She gained notoriety of sorts after reporting on her suspicion of the presence of terrorists on a Northwest Airlines flight. Federal investigators later determined that the men were Syrian band members en route to a performance.[1] See Northwest Airlines Flight 327 for details.
She makes money from frightening people; be afraid, be very afraid that somebody might take her seriously.