FBI Checked Las Vegas Hotel Lists in Terror Alert

[pinto]

the beat goes on


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040104_243.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI demanded Las Vegas hotels turn over their guest lists leading up to New Year's Eve to check against a U.S. master list of suspected terrorists, a law enforcement official said on Sunday.

The demand for "patron information" went to all major hotels in the Nevada casino and entertainment city, said the official who declined to be named.

Las Vegas was one of six or seven cities mentioned in intelligence reports as potential targets for a terrorist attack during the holiday period, Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn said on New Year's Eve.

A second U.S. government official said to his knowledge only one hotel had balked at providing its bookings list. Newsweek, the first to report the FBI demand, said one big hotel had refused and was "slapped with a subpoena."

[frylock]

1. of course, everyone knows that suspected terrorists aren't smart enough..

to use aliases, and fake IDs. :eyes:

[Journeyman]

2. Or stay in an off-Strip, non-major hotel. . .

n/t

[demdave]

7. I know of one that was too stupid to light a fuse on his shoe bomb.

Even in a plane with a private bathroom.

I don't think there is a IQ test to commit suicide......actually, I guess the act itself is a form of IQ test.

[soup]

3. Hmm, maybe it's a secret, but the article doesn't

say how many terrorists were actually smoked out and rounded up using this method. :eyes:

[guajira]

4. TV Report (Fox News) Said no Suspects Were Found

I was shocked when I heard the gov't is prying into who is staying in Las Vegas hotels!! Who would ever have thought that in America you can't stay in a Vegas hotel without the gov't knowing about it?

Just when you think it can't get worse with this scary WH bunch, it does! And most Americans sit with their thumbs up their asses, letting these sleaze-bags take away all our freedoms and privacy!

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE???

[Just Me]

5. I'd say those m/hotel patrons,...

are pretty freakin' outraged.

[guajira]

6. If They Know About it!!

Do you think the hotel told them? I doubt it. Hope they watch the news!

[Just Me]

9. Hope the catch this news!!!

[pinto]

8. write or email your Congressman......s/he works for you. n/t

[pinto]

10. here's contact info: (link)

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. Was Bill Bennett staying

at the Hotel that refused to release names?

[revcarol]

12. That's it! That's it!

Just the morals police.

No story here. Just move on, now.

[stickdog]

13. Well, the governemt NEEDED this private information!

After all, the code color was ORANGE!!!!!!

[pinniped]

14. Good thing the fbi did not check Laughlin, NV.

What about the other five or six cities?

Did the fbi DEMAND all the guest lists from those as well?

Morons.

[mbperrin]

15. "Slapped" with a subpoena>

Couldn't they have just handed it to them?

Stop the violence! (Stopping the stupidity would be too much to hope for!)

[pfitz59]

16. FBI uses hotel list.....

FBI/Rove/GOP: "Mrs. (insert candidate/businessman/public figure name here), hope you enjoyed your stay in Vegas..."
Mrs. X: "Vegas? I wasn't in Vegas?"
FBI: "Sure you were. Here's the hotel registry...MR. and Mrs. X!"
Mrs. X: "He said he was on a busness trip!?......."
FBI: "Nevermind...."

Blackmail is easier when the blackmailers own the judge!

[dansolo]

17. Not good for the Las Vegas tourist business

"What Happens Here Stays Here" - oops, not anymore.