This season's Sopranos contains an element that has been little discussed but is just terrific: a satire on the war on terror. Every so often, FBI Agent Harris and his partner come around to ask Tony is he has any information about possible terrorists at the ports. Tony, though it's technically ratting, is eager to bank goodwill, so he complies, giving the agents the names of the only two Arabs he knows. At first, he doesn't even know their names-- all he knows is they used to hang around at the Bada Bing--but he gets them from Christopher, now dead.
The agents are all too happy to pursue this non-lead. They later show Tony pictures of the pair and say they are possible suspects for "financing." This could mean anything, of course. Even Tony knows it, repeating "possible" back to the agents. And as the tired agents slink away, they remark that they don't even know if the possible suspects are in the country. So it goes in the war on terror.
Meanwhile, Tony has committed murder, aggravated assault, environmental crimes, conspiracy to hijack. His wife has conspired to bribe a building inspector and his son has committed aggravated assault and a hate crime. Stll these agents, who never managed to arrest Tony, are looking the other way at possible "finance" violations.
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