Thursday, May 27, 2004
...you can't boogey with the boogeyman....
Lately as I've been reading my emails and cruising bloggerdome...I've noticed that there's a prevailing skepticism about the new terror attack warnings. There appears to be the notion that the Bush Administration trots out the "terror alert" beast whenever Bush's poll ratings go on the snide.
Being one who likes to feed the beast...here's a bit of grist for this mill:
In yesterday's reporting in the New York Times, David Johnston has the following:
Contradicting news reports Tuesday saying that new information pointed to a specific threat, the officials said Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. Mueller had no new intelligence to suggest that an attack was being planned or that preparations were under way.Instead, the officials said they would issue a new call for public awareness and ask again for the public's help in apprehending suspected terrorists who have long been sought by the F.B.I. and whose names are on the bureau's Web site.
I thought it was kind of weird that this stuff was trotted out and Ridge didn't bother to raise us to fuschia...chartreuse..or whatever the next color up the ladder is.
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Being one who likes to feed the beast...here's a bit of grist for this mill:
In yesterday's reporting in the New York Times, David Johnston has the following:
Contradicting news reports Tuesday saying that new information pointed to a specific threat, the officials said Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. Mueller had no new intelligence to suggest that an attack was being planned or that preparations were under way.Instead, the officials said they would issue a new call for public awareness and ask again for the public's help in apprehending suspected terrorists who have long been sought by the F.B.I. and whose names are on the bureau's Web site.
I thought it was kind of weird that this stuff was trotted out and Ridge didn't bother to raise us to fuschia...chartreuse..or whatever the next color up the ladder is.
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