Mukasey 'surprised' by scope of terrorist threats

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey has been taken aback by the scope and variety of potential terrorism threats facing the United States, he told reporters Friday at an informal meeting in his office.

"I'm surprised by how surprised I am," said Mukasey, who as a federal judge presided over terrorism-related trials in New York.

"It's surprising how varied is, how many directions it comes from, how geographically spread out it is," he said.

Mukasey issued no warnings, made no pronouncements and offered no suggestion of increased danger or newly detected plots.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/21/mukasey.terrorism/index.html

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And this is what CNN calls their "lead story."

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Attorney General Michael Mukasey receives terrorism updates during national security briefings.

[Johnnie vs Jack]

1. uh huh

surprised, like a fox!

[napoleon_in_rags]

2. And they could poison the filling in Twinkies, and they could poop on the elevator buttons...

Yes, there are an infinitude of POTENTIAL terrorists and terrorist plots. I just wish they would focus on something more tangible.

[Nostradammit]

3. Make no mistake - he's relaying a message from Dick Cheney

They are cornered.

[noel adamson]

4. If you give everyone on earth a reason to hate you, you should expect that they will...

...but I suppose that is what the military industrial complex and their government stooges want. The number of friends, relatives and countrymen and women of the tortured and dead from Iraq to El Salvador and Chile to Indonesia, the IMF impoverished of so many countries, the innocent denizens of America's own gigantic prison system must surely have been pushed to a critical mass within the time the Bush administration has held dictatorial power.

[Hugabear]

14. Is that you, Rev. Wright?

Truth be told, you're dead on! We (the US) impose our will upon the rest of the world, bullying them into acting in our national interests, and we wonder why people would want to strike back at us.

Welcome to DU!

[JDPriestly]

5. Do not forget: Shumer recommended this guy.

Terrorist threats have always existed. They always will.

When Madison was president, the British marched on Washington. When Lincoln was president, the terrorists in the south took over. And in recent times, we had the Oklahoma City bombing and the "patriots" who on the right who threatened our way of life. Then there was the unabomber. And the anthrax attacks on targets ranging form the National Enquirer to Leahy. Remember, those attacks actually caused deaths and we have no idea who perpetrated them. Somehow, we don't seem to have ever foreseen any of these events. They were all unexpected, we are told.

So, why should Mukasey be surprised?

[calimary]

9. And Feinstein.

Sounds to me like a human color-alert. He's raising himself to orange to hijack the headlines. Obama's gotten too much good press lately and the people's attention needs to be diverted. Preferably with another boogeyman story.

[Demeter]

17. Something's Rotten in the State of New York

Like the power structure.

[fascisthunter]

33. The DLC Likes Mukasey

They think he's a stand up kinda guy.

[MadMaddie]

36. Schumer and Feinstein sold out the Democratic party

by backing this guy.

And maybe it's just me but a person who is at this level of the DOJ shouldn't be surprised and he shouldn't be phased by the information he hears.

This just tells me he is not prepared for this position. Oh well another lackey who isn't qualified....

[Baby Snooks]

6. "The Muslims are coming, the Muslims are coming..."

The Republicans read this and tremble at the thought of a Democrat taking office. They hate Bush but after all he's kept this country safe!

Mukasey should never have been confirmed. So why was he?

[Kool Kitty]

7. Gee, no new warnings, no raising the threat level,

no new pronouncements-what's the fucking point, Mike? Feeling neglected? Lonely? Need a little attention? Need a little diversion from the way that no one in the administration seems to know how to do their jobs-like Al Jackson of HUD, or Condoleeza at State? Or are you just afraid that we may not be sufficiently frightened for the holiday weekend?

Someone please ask CNN how the fuck this is news?

[bhikkhu]

8. So we have made serious enemies all around the world

Just as the global economy is teetering and our economy is crashing, and the * cabal is headed for the exit doors. Thanks.

[Thor_MN]

10. Fancy that, Mr. Magoo was surprised...

[truthisfreedom]

11. "I'm surprised by how surprised I am," and I'm bored by how bored I am of the republican crap.

So go suck eggs.

[judasdisney]

12. So Surprised That He Spent Most Of His Time Investigating Spitzer

Thanks Charles Schumer & DiFi

[Hugabear]

13. Let me guess - he just finished reading a Tom Clancy novel

And was like "holy shit, look at all this stuff they could maybe do to us!"

[Maureen1322]

15. I'm surprised at how not surprised

I am at the stupidity of this mans comment. Btw why don't "we the people" know the particulars on any of these threats.

[Zorra]

16. Them pinko commie libruls is everywhere. n/t

[Imagevision]

18. Mukasey; "if they were waterboarding me it would be torture..." another Bush sack of shit...

[Solly Mack]

19. front man

and I trust him as much as I trust Bush/Cheney

[donkeyotay]

20. Thanks a bunch for this, Schumer, instead of restoring the integrity of the DoJ. nt

[whistle]

21. Is it because BushCo views all opposition to his policies as terrorist threats?

..."You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror." -- Bush, November 6, 2001

[annabanana]

25. And we have a winner!. . . . .. .n/t

[Supersedeas]

22. he surprised himself and that surprise alone made news

[DeeDeeNY]

23. He should check with Chertoff's "gut" NT

[annabanana]

24. there's turrists under every rock

and they's all OVER the internets....

[williesgirl]

26. Here we go - building up to election time frenzy. They're despicable.

[dreyer]

27. Was anyone suprised by the threat of putting a monkey in the white house?

These genius' are always suprised. Sounds more like they are dumb fucks. Did anyone notice a cocaine brain damaged C-grade monkey stole its way into the white house?

[tom_paine]

28. Sounds like it's time for the Promenade of Phony Terror Threats.

I mean, it IS Phony Elecetion Year, isn't it? And Phony Terror Threats are crucial to manipulating the population into making the "election" close enough to steal, aren't they?

This 2008 Bush production, which looks to feature political prosecutions using the fruits of warrantless wiretapping, among the old standbyes of Phony Terror Threats and RNC Talking Points discussed on all Cable TV 24/7 as if they were ironclad fact and reality, is just getting underway.

Enjoy the show, Imperial Subjects of Amerika. It is about the only thing left in this Empire that is produced JUST FOR US.

[ConcernedCanuk]

30. "it IS Phony Election Year, isn't it?" - yup, afraid so. We'll watch delegates mudsling for a bit

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All this election farce will distract the electorate from the WARS the PNACers got going on all over the globe,

Then back to the same old,

same old.

But they've woke up China and Russia to the Empire's threat.

Not good.

[Ilsa]

29. Why should he be surprised that W has made enemies for us from around the planet? nt

[gratuitous]

31. They're going to fart in our general direction!

Ahhh! Get the plastic sheeting and duct tape!

[fascisthunter]

32. Sure.... What Ever You Say You Fascist Imp (nt)

[aquart]

34. Never mind the "scope." How about the "reality"?

[Political Heretic]

35. "...and its suprising how un-credible and made up for political purposes half of them are!"

I finished his quote.