White House warns some US embassies could remain closed for another month

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian

Obama administration downplays connection between current scare and ongoing debate over NSA surveillance in the US.

The White House has warned the terror alert which forced US embassy closures across the Middle East and Africa could continue for another four weeks as it revealed its intelligence indicated an ongoing threat "from now until the end of August".

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/05/us-embassies-remain-closed-alqaida

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US embassy closures used to bolster case for NSA surveillance programs. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/05/us-embassy-closure-nsa-surveillance

[Scuba]

1. And if that doesn't scare you enough to quit complaining about spying, we'll close them for a year.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I had been tempted to say

is that August 2013 or 2014 or............

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Yup!

[warrant46]

6. Way to deal with the problem

[Safetykitten]

11. +1

[DeSwiss]

3. Close them all.

- And for all the good you assholes do, close Washington too, while you're at it.

K&R

[Gman]

5. Why do I suspect this is all sequestration related?

Have I become that cynical?

[former9thward]

7. These closings do not make sense.

If there is a terrorist threat then why wouldn't the terrorists just wait until they open up again? Its not like they have to go off to some scheduled vacation.

[Fumesucker]

8. I think you have it backwards

Terrorism is what terrorists do when they are on vacation from their day jobs.

If they don't get it done before school starts they have to wait for the Christmas Holidays.

[School Teacher]

9. Close these Centers for CIA Spying and Big Business Wheeling and Dealing

Great news! Let's close these centers of CIA spying, whitewashing and Big Business Hand Outs. As I said to a diplomat who was serving in Afghanistan and home for leave and who said: "Things are getting better in Afghanistan". I told him: "You mean they are all dead and we can get all the minerals? Don't think we are so stupid here that we don't know what you are up to. If you were an honorable person you would quit and get out. Do you see all these homeless hungry people in town while we spend money on your salary? I suppose he turned me into some agency, but it was a great moment for this decades long Peace activist.

[TM99]

10. They are closing them

so they can upgrade the computer systems.

It may take at least a month for the current new tech roll-out.